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

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era
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 “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” 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 Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music the Dreyfus Affair the Peace Conferences in The Hague and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.