A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 18.6 MBOverview: The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague. Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two […]
The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 203.9 MBOverview: In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson remained unshakable in his neutrality. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel […]
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 594.4 MBOverview: “The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate […]
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 787.5 MBOverview: The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a […]
The Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 526.7 MBOverview: In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored […]