History Creator / BarbaraTuchman

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman Barbara Tuchman]] (1912-1989) was a well-known American historian. She won two Pulitzer Prizes for ''The Guns of August'' and ''Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945''. She specialized mainly in military and diplomatic history, particularly the events surrounding UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Her books have enjoyed broad appeal, and her books, especially ''The March of Folly'', ''The Guns of August'' and ''The Zimmermann Telegram'' contain so many real life tropes, mostly of the idiotic kind, that sorting them out requires a study of its own.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman Barbara Tuchman]] (1912-1989) was a well-known American historian. She won two Pulitzer Prizes for ''The Guns of August'' and ''Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945''. She specialized mainly in military and diplomatic history, particularly the events surrounding UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. Her books have enjoyed broad appeal, and her books, especially ''The March of Folly'', ''The Guns of August'' and ''The Zimmermann Telegram'' contain so many real life tropes, mostly of the idiotic kind, that sorting them out requires a study of its own.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman Barbara Tuchman]] (1912-1989) was a well-known American historian. She won two Pulitzer Prizes for ''The Guns of August'' and ''Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945''. She specialized mainly in military and diplomatic history, particularly the events surrounding ''UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne''. Her books have enjoyed broad appeal, and her books, especially ''The March of Folly'', ''The Guns of August'' and ''The Zimmermann Telegram'' contain so many real life tropes, mostly of the idiotic kind, that sorting them out requires a study of its own.

In a way, her writing indirectly saved the world in the Cold War, as President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was an avid reader of ''The Guns of August'' and was determined to not to make the same blunders European leaders did at the start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, which probably helped him resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully. One of her essays ("Perdicaris Alive or Raisuli Dead") inspired Creator/JohnMilius to write direct ''Film/TheWindAndTheLion''.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman Barbara Tuchman]] (1912-1989) was a well-known American historian. She won two Pulitzer Prizes for ''The Guns of August'' and ''Stilwell and the American Experience in China''. Her books have enjoyed broad appeal, and her books, especially ''The March of Folly'', ''The Guns of August'' and ''The Zimmermann Telegram'' contain so many real life tropes, mostly of the idiotic kind, that sorting them out requires a study of its own.

In a way, her writing indirectly saved the world in the Cold War, as President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was an avid reader of ''The Guns of August'' and was determined to not to make the same blunders European leaders did at the start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, which probably helped him resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman Barbara Tuchman]] (1912-1989) was a well known American historian. Her books have enjoyed broad appeal, and her books, especially ''The March of Folly'', ''The Guns of August'' and ''The Zimmermann Telegram'' contain so many real life tropes, mostly of the idiotic kind, that sorting them out requires a study of its own.

* EndOfAnAge: Tuchman began her most famous work, ''The Guns of August'', with a recounting of the funeral of [[TheEdwardianEra King Edward VII of the United Kingdom]] in 1910. The chapter describes the many heads of state and European royal families that marched in the funeral procession, and how all those royal dynasties would be destroyed by the war that was right around the corner.

In a way, her writing indirectly saved the world in the Cold War, as President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was an avid reader of ''The Guns of August'' and was determined to not to make the same blunders European leaders did at the start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, which probably helped him resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully.

** Tuchman's book ''A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century'' deals with a similar theme: namely, the tumult of TheLateMiddleAges in Europe.

In a way, her writing indirectly saved the world in the Cold War, as President JohnFKennedy was an avid reader of ''The Guns of August'' and was determined to not to make the same blunders European leaders did at the start of WorldWarOne, which probably helped him resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully.