{"product_id":"book-3504","title":"The Proud Tower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was \"heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change to that point in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Tuchman brings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy; the anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; two peace conferences in the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of socialism, epitomized by the death of heroic Jean Jaurès on the night the war began and an epoch ended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49315934273840,"sku":"BD3504","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49315934339376,"sku":"ZE3504","price":65.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49315934404912,"sku":"ZM3504","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/3504-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782319900","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-3504","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}