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A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
$10.00 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a ch ...Show more
First Salute - View of the American Revolution by Barbara W. Tuchman
$27.50 NZD
Category: World History
This is a narrative history of the tumultuous years of the American War of Independence, using the salute of the St Eustatius as the starting point in an examination of the rivalries that determined Europe's crucial role in the American struggle.
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
$15.00 NZD
Category: World History
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece "The Guns of August, " grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montez ...Show more
The Proud Tower - A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
$13.50 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Papermacs Ser.
Secondhand. 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 most accelerated rate of change to that point ...Show more
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