The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Barbara W. Tuchman with Wanda McCaddon (Narrator)

22 hours, 13 minutes first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." The age was the climax of a century of the m...

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