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Há 5 dias · The books make up a series titled The Margaret Chronicles. In February 2024, Meg finally came into the world as the protagonist of The Solitary Sparrow. If Barbara Tuchman were alive, I would send her a copy. I know it seems strange to work on a book for 38 years, and more.
Há 3 dias · I have, for the past two months, been reading Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August. This, dear readers, is astonishing. And I’m not talking about the book although it is phenomenal. No–it’s that I’ve stuck with and enjoyed this book! It’s non-fiction (not my usual fare), over 700 pages long, and about war (a topic that does NOT call ...
Há 1 dia · In her book The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman concludes with a chapter on the Vietnam War. There she describes how the French seduced the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allen ...
Há 5 dias · Joan of Arc’s story is remarkable for its endurance in popular consciousness: the peasant girl from Domrémy (in the Duchy of Lorraine) condemned by the Church as heretic, later reclaimed as saint.
Há 6 dias · The distinguished English translation of the best selling French edition now considered the standard biography of Joan of Arc. Start with this book. Also see Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror for historical context of Joan's lifetime.
Há 1 dia · It’s Not Just Books. The destruction of knowledge at the behest of the Zero Historians isn’t limited to printed matter. More than two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available after MTV appears to have fully pulled down the site and its related content.
Há 1 dia · The book that changed me as a teenager: I’d say there were four of these teen-changer bastards: The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain; Cyberiad, by Stanisław Lem; Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; and The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. Tuchman’s book was the first serious history book I read. It highlighted how complicated history can seem.
