The proud tower

a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914

by Barbara Tuchman

1959 528 pages eng

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 a…