A most exciting book, full of vivid pen portraits and curious episodes
A most exciting book, full of vivid pen portraits and curious episodes
As thrilling as a John Buchan novel
Its 200 pages are worth more than all the thrillers and whodunits of the fiction writers put together
A fine exciting book told with intense drama. A thriller of real life
Brilliant. Told with great literary and dramatic talent
All the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy thriller
Dazzling
Magnificent. A masterpiece of the historian's art
Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Proud Tower are published by Penguin.