Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns Of August, The Proud Tower (...
Tuchman, Barbara W. / MacMillan, Margaret![Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns Of August, The Proud Tower (loa #222)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/193/19378585/CHSBZCOP0319378585.jpg)
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 ...