{"product_id":"the-proud-tower-book-by-barbara-w-tuchman","title":"The Proud Tower\nBook by Barbara W. Tuchman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Proud Tower,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Proud Tower,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guns of August,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Zimmermann Telegram\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55523426402595,"sku":null,"price":590.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55523426435363,"sku":null,"price":720.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55523426468131,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_0e4ebfcd-d675-40c0-8cc9-284a19ed9eeb.jpg?v=1787852193","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/the-proud-tower-book-by-barbara-w-tuchman","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}