Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman, (Narrator: Wanda McCaddon)Requirements: MP3 Player, 354 MB, 64kbps, (2009)Overview: Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into America’s past and present, trenchant observations on […]
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. TuchmanRequirements: ePUB Reader | 11.2 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 […]
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman Requirements: .ePUB Reader | 11.2 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 […]
2 Books by Barbara W. Tuchman Requirements: .epub Reader | 19.9Mb | Version: RetailOverview: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American self-trained historian and author. She became best known for The Guns of August, a history of the prelude and first month of World War I.As an author, Tuchman focused on producing popular history. Her clear, […]
The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara TuchmanRequirements: ePUB/AZW3 reader, 1.5 MBOverview: Barbara Tuchman’s The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy stories of all time. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air – and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . . In January 1917, […]