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His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

Barbara W. Tuchman

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

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About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) 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 biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.