巴巴拉·W·塔奇曼(Barbara W. Tuchman,1912—1989),美國著名曆史學傢、作傢,1963年和1972年憑《八月炮火》與《史迪威與美國在中國的經驗,1911—1945》兩度獲得普利策奬。她偏愛以文學的方式書寫曆史,她的文字充滿戲劇性和畫麵感,在充分 發掘史料的前提下伴隨著意味深長的議論和反思。其作品深受大眾讀者和費正清等曆史學傢的推崇。
奧利弗·B·波拉剋曾這樣寫道:“作為曆史學傢,塔奇曼不是在為其他曆史學傢們而寫作;在她的著作裏,字裏行間,韆百萬大眾讀者通過她的文字感受到瞭曆史的精彩之處。”
The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it.
--Barbara W. Tuchman
The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.
In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaurès was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
"Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish. . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."
--The New York Times
"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."
--Time
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