The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman5/27/2023 ![]() Includes bibliographical references and indexĪuthor's note - 1. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't Random Houseīarbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war's key players, Tuchman's magnum opus is a classic for the ages. ![]() And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. ![]() In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. "The drama of August, 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed, and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today."-Jacket ![]()
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