NP: _The Proud Tower_ (Barbara W. Tuchman)

[Otto]

2012/2/25 Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>:
> Anything by Tuchman is pretty good -  I've read:
>
> The Guns of August
> The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914
> A Distant Mirror:The Calamitous 14th Century,
>
> Would like to read Stilwell and the American Experience in China
>
> bek
>

Right, she writes great books.

I liked "Stilwell and the American Experience in China" and "The March
of Folly" a lot.

She gave me the impression that good historical books can be about any
topic one can think about.

By the way, Golo Mann's "Wallenstein"-biography is a quite good read too.