The Proud Tower

The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” ( The New York Times )—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August 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 vi