Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” was released in January 1962. Historian Robert Massie, in the 1994 Foreword, states that “The Guns of August was an immediate, overwhelming success. Reviewers ...

In 1988, Bill Moyers sat down with noted historian Barbara Tuchman to discuss politicians, advertising and whether our country has learned from the Vietnam War. An advocate of the notion that it's ...

One of my favorite historians is Barbara Tuchman. One of the first large volumes of history I read growing up was “The Guns of August”, her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the outbreak of World War ...

The late historian Barbara Tuchman, in her work The March of Folly, chronicles how governments throughout history have regularly and repeatedly pursued policies contrary to their self-interest.

THE GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)—Barbara W. Tuchman—Macmillan ($6.95). World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of ...

THE PROUD TOWER by Barbara W. Tuchman. 528 pages. Macmillan. $7.95. November 1912. From the pulpit of the cathedral in Basle, France’s Jean Jaurès faced 555 fellow Socialists of 23 nations, gathered ...

"If a Gen. Ed man tells you to write about a rainbow, he's lost sight of the basic reason for writing--communication," Barbara Tuchman '33 told a group of girls in Barnard Hall last night. Author of ...

As an amateur historian, I read a lot. Reading enables me to be a quasi-expert on esoteric topics like the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) and the Byzantine Empire (324-1453), and more familiar events ...