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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 Pre-war & Early Years the race for ever moreDescription by Barbara W. Tuchman Paperback During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self depicted hero,