Barbara Tuchman Historian
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Jan 30, 1912
- Died: Feb 6, 1989
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 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, 1911 - 45, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
food
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
war
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
government
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
history