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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Presidio Press
August 03, 2004
This is the first book by Tuchman that I read. It was recommended to me by a close friend whose reading choices are full spectrum. I read it cover to cover non-stop. Barbara T. has not only a gift for investigative reporting, a skill critical to historians, but has also a novelist's sense of storytelling. A fine combination that makes history come alive and jump off the page... more
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| 2. Distant Mirror |
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By: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
January 01, 1979
Barbara Tuchman sticks us right into the heart of the late Middle Ages, geographically and temporally, in her 1978 history "A Distant Mirror". Her talent for penetrating, minute analysis and ripping narrative are readily apparent in the opening pages. But as the book goes on, it is weighed down by a pedantic downbeat perspective and a failure to connect an overlong book thematically.
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| 3. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 | 
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
August 27, 1996
Just finished this because my next book, THE GUNS OF AUGUST, falls right into place. I'm new to Tuchman but found the essays here to be interesting but ultimately a better windup would've helped. The years leading up to WWI were anything but peaceful: labor unrest, shifting class power, artistic shockers (interestingly, Picasso is given only one line)and, of course, the Dreyfus Affair are accorded... more
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| 4. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
February 12, 1985
About the book:
This is Barbara Tuchman's book on the Viet Nam book, although this is only hinted at in the title. The book begins with an interesting chapter that defines folly, as a policy in that is contrary to self-interest. The next chapter is on the wooden horse of the Trojan War, and why the Trojan's, contrary to their self- interest and with many warnings, took it into the city and... more
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| 5. The Zimmermann Telegram |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
March 12, 1985
I read books on war and how they are started with revulsed fascination. The bait is that there might be a key in each story to keep us out of a new war at some point. The lesson of Barbara Tuchmann's World War I histories is that powerful men in love with glory and delusions of destiny, such as the Kaiser and his war planners, are extremely dangerous people at all times.
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| 6. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Grove Press
October 07, 2001
Tuchman is a splendid writer as wittnessed by her Pulitzers. She gives us an intimate insight of a not too well known or understood time, place and characters... more
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| 7. Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
February 12, 1984
This book was a really great read. This starts with the history of who could read the bible (priests mainly) up to the translation of the bible so that common man could read it (under King James and Henry VIII). With such an empowerment, the people of England broke from Roman Catholicism (and the influence of Puritism and Lutherism started), and the English people took up the cause for Israel, and... more
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| 8. The First Salute |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
September 06, 1989
This is an interesting take on the American Revolution. It unfolds in a discursive, indirect manner, so that getting from A (a cannon salute by the French colony at St. Eustatius in the West Indies to an American ship, representing the first recognition of the revolutionary government) to Z (Washington's triumph at Yorktown) is nonlinear.
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| 9. Practicing History: Selected Essays |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
August 12, 1982
This should be compulsory reading for everybody in positions of power and influence. The essays may have passed into history, but their verities remain. The anguish caused by political and commercial stupidity and its by-product of war would be lessened if power brokers learnt from history. War is folly, as this great historian wrote many years ago. Will people ever learn? I cannot use the word 'humanity'... more
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
1962
the seller made every effort to make sure the book was of the highest quality... more
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