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Tuchman would later return to a subject she had touched upon in The Guns of August, i. e., the social attitudes and issues that existed prior to World War I, in a collection of eight essays published in 1966 under the title The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914.
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In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman states that his close advisors would later maintain that he died of a " profound chagrin ".
In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman states that his close advisors would later maintain that he died of a " profound chagrin ".
The oft-given figure of 100, 000 crusaders is dismissed by Tuchman, who notes that 100, 000 men would have taken a month to cross the Danube at Iron Gate, while the crusaders took eight days.
Tuchman and later
Tuchman cynically notes that Joffre later took complete credit for saving Paris and the French army — after having the commander who ordered the tactical retreat, Charles Lanrezac, relieved of duty, and the older commander and his former superior, Joseph Gallieni, pushed back into obscurity.
Thus, at age two, Barbara Tuchman was a first-hand witness to the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau, which she documented 48 years later.
Tuchman and she
Throughout the aforementioned narrative, Tuchman constantly brings up the numerous misconceptions, miscalculations, and mistakes that she believed resulted in the tragedy of trench warfare.
While she did not explicitly mention this in The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman was a witness to one of the pivotal events of the book: the pursuit of the German battle cruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau.
Tuchman and had
Immediately following his election, Urban began preaching intemperately to the cardinals ( some of whom < ref > Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14 < sup > th </ sup > Century, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978, pp 330 – 331 </ ref > thought the delirium of power had made Urban mad and unfit for rule ), insisting that the business of the Curia should be carried on without gratuities and gifts, forbidding the cardinals to accept annuities from rulers and other lay persons, condemning the luxury of their lives and retinues, and the multiplication of benefices and bishoprics in their hands.
In a somewhat comical passage, Tuchman even quotes from a general who criticized the master of a Belgian house for failing to sit with him at dinner and observe proper mealtime etiquette, despite the fact that the Germans had violated his country's neutrality, taken over his house, and stolen or destroyed much of his property.
Milius ' inspiration had come from reading an article by Barbara W. Tuchman about the Perdicaris incident in American Heritage magazine, and he found the story fascinating ; he decided to adapt it into a screenplay once he figured how to make the story more cinematic — by making Ion Perdicaris a woman, Eden Pedecaris.
Tuchman and Guns
As Barbara Tuchman noted in The Guns of August, his funeral marked " the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last ".
In The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman argued that Russia's loss destabilized the balance of power in Europe, emboldening the Central Powers and contributing to their decision to go to war in 1914.
Barbara Tuchman describes Ludendorff in her book The Guns of August as Schlieffen ’ s devoted disciple who was a glutton for work and a man of granite character.
The Guns of August ( 1962 ), also published as August 1914, is a volume of history by Barbara Tuchman.
Tuchman and .
The team at IBM involved in cipher design and analysis included Feistel, Walter Tuchman, Don Coppersmith, Alan Konheim, Carl Meyer, Mike Matyas, Roy Adler, Edna Grossman, Bill Notz, Lynn Smith, and Bryant Tuckerman.
Another member of the DES team, Walter Tuchman, stated " We developed the DES algorithm entirely within IBM using IBMers.
" Levy quotes Walter Tuchman: " hey asked us to stamp all our documents confidential ... We actually put a number on each one and locked them up in safes, because they were considered U. S. government classified.
Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).
Barbara Tuchman, in her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, offers a vivid narrative of Julius II's career.
Pursuant to the settlement, the painting was returned to the Shefner Family in resolution of litigation commenced against the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow, the authors of the Soutine Catalogue Raisonnée.
* Tuchman, Barbara, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, New York ; Ballantine Books, 1978.
In her book The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman notes that the earth has been called The Meadow of Atë.
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* Tuchman, Barbara W. ( 1978 ), A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century., Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984.
Tuchman and social
According to historian Barbara Tuchman, Coucy found his estate in difficult economic and social circumstances when he returned from England in 1366.
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