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Title: The Proud Tower
Subtitle: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Narrator: Nadia May
Format: Unabridged
Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-27-05
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 615 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
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 in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.
In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman brings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaures was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
Critic Reviews:
"It would be impossible to read
The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration." (
The New York Times)"Tuchman proved in
The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding." (
Time)
