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  • Barbara W. Tuchman
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  • Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (later August 1914), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell. Tuchman focused on writing popular history.
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Relatives
Birth Date
  • 1912-01-30
Period
  • 1938
Subject
  • Middle Ages, Renaissance, American Revolution, 1900, World War I
death place
  • Greenwich, Connecticut
Spouse
  • Lester R. Tuchman
Name
  • Barbara W. Tuchman
Genre
  • History
Birth Place
  • New York City
death date
  • 1989-02-06
Description
  • "The Open Mind - "A Distant Mirror" The 14th Century and Today "
Children
  • Three daughters
Occupation
  • Writer, journalist, historian
ID
  • openmind_ep1405
Birth name
  • Barbara Wertheim
Nationality
  • American
abstract
  • Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (later August 1914), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell. Tuchman focused on writing popular history.