Europe Before the Great War - Portents of a World in Conflict
A penetrating examination of a peaceful European world of 100 years ago in which the seeds for the great conflicts of the 20th Century were being laid. Master British Historian Barbara Tuchman takes us on a beautifully written voyage back in time with "The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890 - 1914, unravels the Dreyfus and Hay Market affairs, and the anarchist mood of the times that produced WW I.
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890 - 1914,
by Barbara Tuchman ( 1996 - 608 pp)
Master historian Barbara Tuchman's colorful description of a European world at peace and lays the ground for the outbreak of a century of war.