The proud tower

Description:

The fateful quarter-century leading up to the Great War comes magnificently to life in these pages. It 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 man's record, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny. In portraying this world Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. Her aim, as she writes in her foreword, is "to discover the quality of the world from which the Great War came." - Jacket flap.

subjects: Histoire,  Modern History,  Social conditions,  World history,  Juvenile literature,  World War, 1914-1918,  Causes,  History,  History, modern, 20th century

Places: Europe,  United States

Times: 20th century,  1871-1918,  20e siècle,  19th century