Word: tuchman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)-Barbara W. Tuchman-Macmillan...
...years. Never before had so many nations so thoroughly plotted the destruction of their enemies. When the fighting finally began, in the long, hot summer of 1914, the great armies moved eagerly onstage to take up their long-assigned positions. In The Guns of August, Historian Barbara W. Tuchman (The Zimmermann Telegram) tells how, in the very first month of World War I, all the dramatic plans disintegrated into four years of wasting disaster...
...Jackstraws. "Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws," writes Author Tuchman; "one could not be pulled out without moving the others." Germany's battle plan was drawn by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from 1891 to 1906, a monocled Prussian with a mind that slashed through argument like a dueling sword. Schlieffen promised victory in six weeks by a massive, right-wing attack that would pivot across Belgium and fall on the flank of the French armies before Paris. Knowing of the scheme, France devised Plan 17, calling...
...Turning Back." Author Tuchman ends her long account with only the briefest mention of France's "miracle of the Marne," where the French at long last halted the German armies, weakened by the loss of the departed two corps and sorely needing the reinforcements Moltke held back. Her book does not capture the roar of battle that rumbles through Gallipoli, by Alan Moorehead, or In Flanders Fields, by Leon Wolff...
...recently even the most determined agnostics began to feel that this spiritual decontamination policy had gone too far. Young people were contemptuously ignorant of all Jewish tradition and looked down on everything that happened before the turn of the century as belonging to a "submissive people." Explains Headmaster Zebulun Tuchman of Jerusalem's largest school, the Rehavia Gymnasium: "Children who reached school age after the creation of Israel had no interest in the Jewish past, in Jewish literature, in Jewish religion." At the Youth Congress in Moscow last summer, Israeli delegates were embarrassed before their fellow Jews...