The Guns of August was a history of Europe’s messy slide into World War I A Distant Mirror (1978) educated readers about the 14 th century and the bubonic plague’s ravaging of Europe.
She was uncredentialed as an historian, but her literary abilities enabled her to take historical research and turn it into storytelling for millions of people. Tuchman worked as a foreign correspondent for her father’s magazine from 1934 to 1937, during which time she reported on the Spanish Civil War. Her father was an international banker, head of the American Jewish Committee, and owner of The Nation magazine her mother was the daughter of diplomat Henry Morgenthau.
Popular history writer Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for her books The Guns of August (1962) and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945 (1972), was born into a prominent and wealthy family in New York on this date in 1912.
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