Sand Against the Wind Tapa blanda - 1991

Papermac, 1991. slight scuffing to front cover and edges and browning page edges. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Papermac, 1991. First U.K.? Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. xv, [3], 621, [1] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Name and date in ink inside the front cover. Previous owner's embossed stamp of fep. Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1912 - 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August, a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell. During World War II, Tuchman worked in the Office of War Information. Tuchman favored a literary approach to writing history, providing eloquent explanatory narratives rather than concentration upon discovery and publication of fresh archival sources. In 1978, Tuchman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She became the first female president of the American Academy of Arts… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.