Decisive Moments in History (German: Sternstunden der Menschheit, lit.
'Stellar Moments of Humankind') is a 1927 history book by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
Its first English translation was published in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures.
The miniatures relate historical events that changed the world.
The last two were added to later German editions but were already part of the first English edition published under the title "The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures".