Tuchman: Guns of August, Proud Tower (LOA #222)

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Publisher: Library of America

ISBN: 9781598531459

Binding: hardcover

Section: History

Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the all-too-human failures of leaders subject to the pull of historical currents and prone, often tragically, to the ingrained biases of culture and temperament.