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Earnest, grave, epic and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Barbara Tuchman
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 691
- Publisher
- Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Franklin Library
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780333443293
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First sentence
“Codiacum, supposedly derived from Codex, codicis, meaning a tree trunk stripped of its branches such as those the Gauls used to build their palisades.”
About Barbara Tuchman · 1912–1989
American historian and author
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