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The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman�s classic histories of the First World War era 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; 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 Jaur�s on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. Praise for The Proud Tower �[Barbara W. Tuchman�s] Pulitzer Prize�winning The Guns of August was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914�1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world.��Newsweek �A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration.��The New York Times �An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author�s knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more.��Chicago Tribune �[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding.��Time From the Trade Paperback edition.