The proud tower [electronic resource] : [a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914] / Barbara W. Tuchman.
In "The proud tower", Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman brings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two peace conferences in The Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaur�es was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
Record details
- ISBN: 078613867X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780786138678 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 21:47:50. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Nadia May. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 313268 KB; MP3 file size: 614283 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | History, Modern > 20th century. |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |