num_pages: 588
description: During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed 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; 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.
language: English
title: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
titlecomplete: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
genres: Historical, History, World War I, European History, World History, War, Germany, 19th Century, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 8718
publisher: Ballantine Books