Yahoo: What Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' can teach us today
Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” was released in January 1962. Historian Robert Massie, in the 1994 Foreword, states that “The Guns of August was an immediate, overwhelming success. Reviewers ...
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy was given something that profoundly influenced how he would view the world: Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Guns of August.” The book, which ...
Among Barbara Tuchman’s many sins as an historian was the notion, propagated in her popular volume The Guns of August (1962), that the Great Powers had more or less blundered into conflict in 1914, ...
American writer Barbara Tuchman remarked that “war is the unfolding of miscalculations.” As part of those calculations, the value of each of the lives lost to war should not be measured any ...
The Guns of August, showing shrewd fidelity to its source, begins with film clips that vividly reproduce the opening of Barbara Tuchman’s witty and colorful history. The time is May 1910, and a ...
The great popular historian Barbara Tuchman, in her book Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945, examines in detail America’s efforts to use and shape China after the fall of the Qing ...
THE GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)—Barbara W. Tuchman—Macmillan ($6.95). World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of ...
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. The late Barbara W. Tuchman was one of the most accomplished practitioners of "popular ...