The Proud Tower
$35.00 CAD • Used
Light wear to gold paper covered slipcase, book as new ; Black cloth covered boards, elaborate gilt stamped design on front boards, gilt stamped titles on spine ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 505 pages...
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Light wear to gold paper covered slipcase, book as new ; Black cloth covered boards, elaborate gilt stamped design on front boards, gilt stamped titles on spine ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 505 pages; "During 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 The Proud Tower, 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; Diaghilevs Russian ballet and Stravinskys music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurs on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close."
Product Info
Publisher: Folio Society
Year: 1995
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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AinsworthBooks
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