Talk:Barbara Tuchman

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"As an author, Tuchman focused on producing popular history" - I take this to mean that she wrote well. She used original sources, met academic standards of rigour, and chose topics that interested her - just like university historians, though she was not one and encountered some snobbery about that. - AG, Stockport, UK.

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[edit] Ohio State

What is the association between Tuchman & Ohio State? DEddy 18:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Error in list of books

The error is the last entry in the list of her books. The last book listed is "Fin De Siecle, a novel", for which I can find no evidence. My next step would be to learn how to check for the book's existence at the Library of Congress, which I'm not going to take time to learn now. If someone wants to leave a message for me on my own talk page, feel free -- but I'm not likely to check back for it for weeks or months.


If the Library of Congress verifies the existence of all 11 of her actual books, but not the book which we erroneously list -- and which lots of websites quote, making WP's error much more serious -- then one could safely remove this book from the WP article. Or WP experts could judge whether the originator of this error is a reliable contributor.


I do not like WP making quoted errors like this one, but I'm not going to remove the book myself without absolute proof as above. For7thGen 00:17, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I have no such qualms. Being bold cuts both ways. See also Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#Error in Barbara Tuchman article. It's gone until such time as absolute proof if its existence can be provided. JackofOz 04:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

As the author of the edit which introduced the apparently apocryphal Fin de Siecle into the document, I can only contend that it was an amendment made in good faith, and in all probability garnered from a 2nd or 3rd party bibliography or an article I was reading somewhere along the line. I am pretty sure I will eventually turn up a reference to where I got it from, but this may take some time. I agree entirely with its excision until such time as its existence or otherwise can be definitively determined. Sjc 06:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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 --LambiamTalk 06:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clausewitz page numbers

I'm having a devil of a time tracking down some Clausewitz quotes. My source is The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. Tuchman says (p 39) that among Clausewitz' objectives of war is that of "gaining great victories and possession of the enemy's capital." Guns gives the cite for this (from the 3-volume Graham translation) as Clausewitz III, 209-10. This apparently doesn't correspond to the online versions of Graham (for example http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_War or http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/VomKriege2/ONWARTOC2.HTML ).

Can anybody give me a cite for any online English translation of this quote?
Is there any rule of thumb for converting page numbers of one translation of Clausewitz to another?

Thanks. -- 201.53.4.206 10:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)