Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (born 1912)

Barbara W. Tuchman

American historian and author (1912–1989)

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a…