Barbara Tuchman’s Vietnam War 27 Wednesday Sep 2017 Original size at 758 × 600 ≈ Leave a comment William Shirer (left), Barbara Tuchman, and John S.D. Eisenhower at the Conference on Research and World War II and the National Archives, 14-15 June 1971. Tuchman was actively engaged in the discourse about the Vietnam War throughout the 1960s-70s.