Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August—a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
“A true, lucid thriller . . . a tremendous tale of hushed and
unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy . . .
Tuchman makes the most of it with a creative writer’s sense of
drama and a scholar’s obeisance to the evidence.”—The New York
Times
“The tale has most of the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy
thriller.”—Saturday Review
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