Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” was released in January 1962. Historian Robert Massie, in the 1994 Foreword, states that “The Guns of August was an immediate, overwhelming success. Reviewers ...
Tomorrow will mark the thirteenth day of what future historians might well dub the “Iranian nuclear missile crisis.” Set off by the overwhelming Israeli air campaign against Iran begun on June 13, the ...
Among Barbara Tuchman’s many sins as an historian was the notion, propagated in her popular volume The Guns of August (1962), that the Great Powers had more or less blundered into conflict in 1914, ...
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Iran sharpens its aim: fires fewer missiles but destroys more
Takes down several radars and planes from the United States, including a valuable E-3 Sentry on the ground. In The Guns of ...
The great popular historian Barbara Tuchman, in her book Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945, examines in detail America’s efforts to use and shape China after the fall of the Qing ...
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The folly of Netanyahu’s war against Iran
A minority view from Tel Aviv. Can we add Netanyahu’s war against Iran to Barbara Tuchman’s list of unwise and ...
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