The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 351.4 MBOverview: Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and best-selling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and […]
Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.16MBOverview: From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.Historically, the British […]
The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara W. Tuchman Requirements: .ePUB reader, 6.3 MBOverview: In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and […]
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 22.7 MBOverview: In The March of Folly (originally published in 1984) Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman explores one of the paradoxes of history – the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests despite the availability of […]
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: .PDF reader, 2.6 MbOverview: The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. […]