Barbara Tuchman

A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August. The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague. Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the...

The Guns of August is Barbara Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war, reissued for the 2014 Centenary. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use... Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the...