The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
of Barbara W. Tuchman
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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 âheaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.â In The Proud Tower, 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; Diaghilevâs Russian ballet and Stravinskyâs music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean JaurĂšs on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 588 pages
- Publisher Ballantine Books
- Publication Date August 27th 1996
- First Publication 10/11/65
- Language English
- ISBN 9780345405012
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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