Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author, born in 1912 and died in 1989. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August in 1962, a history of the prelude to and first month of World War I, and for Stilwell and the American Experience in China in 1971, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell. Tuchman's other books include A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century and The Proud Tower, both works of history.