Historian, Author
Barbara W. Tuchman was an American historian and author who won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August and Stilwell and the American Experience in China. She became the first female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was celebrated for making history vivid and accessible to general readers.
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Tuchman reconstructs WWI's first month, showing how rigid war plans and national pride turned a crisis into catastrophe. The tragedy was a cascade of avoidable errors.
The books Barbara W. Tuchman references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by William Shirer
Shirer, a journalist who witnessed Nazi Germany firsthand, provides a monumental chronicle of its rise, conquests, and collapse. It remains one of the most comprehensive accounts of how totalitarianism took root in a modern state.
Who Barbara draws from, and who draws from Barbara — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.