{"product_id":"9780345405012","title":"The Proud Tower","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower,\u003c\/i\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\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Zimmermann Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Barbara W. Tuchman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45893411963092,"sku":"9780345405012","price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a108b3dd-e02f-4a3d-a1d7-49f78a92d9b9.jpg?v=1732440414","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780345405012","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}