04588cam a2200409 4500 233484356 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307798114 0307798119 B005GFBTK4 Amazon be6d7124-7316-40b3-b6cf-39911a9934e4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 626611 OverDrive (Product ID) 180846 626611 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. The Proud Tower [Libby]. Random House Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 9MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>"[Barbara W. Tuchman's] Pulitzer Prize--winning <i>The Guns of August</i> was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914--1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i></b> "A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read <i>The Proud Tower</i> without pleasure and admiration."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> "An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."<b>--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b> "[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."</p>. HTML:<i>Time</i>. HTML:<p>A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series</p> <p><b><i>The Proud Tower,</i> the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Guns of August,</i> and <i>The Zimmerman Telegram</i> comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era<br /></b><br /> During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." In <i>The Proud Tower,</i> Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.<br /> <br /> <b>Praise for <i>The Proud Tower</i></b><br /> <br /> "[Barbara W. Tuchman's] Pulitzer Prize--winning <i>The Guns of August</i> was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914--1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i></b><br /> <br /> "A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read <i>The Proud Tower</i> without pleasure and admiration."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b><br /> <br /> "An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."<b>--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br /> <br /> "[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."<b>--<i>Time</i></b></p><br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=be6d7124-7316-40b3-b6cf-39911a9934e4 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/BE6/D71/24/ProudTower9780307798114.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=BE6D7124-7316-40B3-B6CF-39911A9934E4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/BE6/D71/24/ProudTower9780307798114.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=BE6D7124-7316-40B3-B6CF-39911A9934E4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/BE6/D71/24/ProudTower9780307798114.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=BE6D7124-7316-40B3-B6CF-39911A9934E4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)