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A review by evamadera1
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series by Barbara W. Tuchman
4.0
This book was absolutely fascinating. For one thing, the narrator is fantastic. She's my new favorite female narrator probably because her voice sounds like a combination of the actress that played Harriet Smith on Doctor Who (and Isobel Crawley on Downton Abbey) and Julie Andrews.
I also really liked the approach that Barbara Tuchman took to studying this time period. Instead of focusing on the major world event, World War I, she analyzed the various social and political influences that shaped the era immediately preceding the war. Her entire narrative pointed towards build up to war. She laid out that objective at the beginning of the book and made her argument quite convincingly.
I highly recommend this book.
I also really liked the approach that Barbara Tuchman took to studying this time period. Instead of focusing on the major world event, World War I, she analyzed the various social and political influences that shaped the era immediately preceding the war. Her entire narrative pointed towards build up to war. She laid out that objective at the beginning of the book and made her argument quite convincingly.
I highly recommend this book.