| 1. The guns of August (A Dell book) | 
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By: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher: Dell
1963
This is a 5 star book squeezed into a tiny, tiny paperback. Do NOT buy this edition... the print is impossibly small...I returned it immediately.
Buy a trade size edition. I couldn't see one on amazon.com and went to Border's and found it immediately... more
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| 2. Bt-a Distant Mirror |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
November 12, 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 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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| 4. 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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| 5. The Zimmermann Telegram |
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
June 06, 1996
Good book. Have had it for years. Enjoyed it and often recommend it to World War II historians. ... more
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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's detailed history describes U.S. General Joseph Stillman's experiences in China, including his arduous campaign to remove the Japanese from the country during World War II. It provides a very useful context for modern China's complex relationships with the United States, Japan, and other countries in Asia. The military descriptions represent one of the best accounts I've read of the value... 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. 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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| 9. 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.
Sometimes this is frustrating, as one asks: "Where... more
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| 10. The Guns of August | 
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Macmillan Co.
January 01, 1962
the seller made every effort to make sure the book was of the highest quality... more
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