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The guns of August : the outbreak of World War I
Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the opening of World War I beautifully reissued and repackaged with The Proud Tower and The Zimmerman Telegram as a Modern Library set: Barbara Tuchman's Great War.
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- ISBN: 9780345386236
- ISBN: 034538623X
- Physical Description: xxviii, 566 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition: Random House trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published 1962 ; preface ©1988 ; foreword ©1994 ; maps ©2014. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-498) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A funeral -- Plans : "Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" ; The shadow of Sedan ; "A single British soldier" ; The Russian steam roller -- Outbreak : August I: Berlin ; August I: Paris and London ; Ultimatum in Brussels ; "Home before the leaves fall" -- Battle : "Goeben ... an enemy then flying" ; Liége and Alsace ; BEF to the continent ; Sanbre et Meuse ; Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons ; "The Cossacks are coming!" ; Tannenberg ; The flames of Louvain ; Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral ; Retreat ; The front is Paris ; Von Kluck's turn ; "Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne." |
| Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize, 1963 |
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The Guns of August : The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
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The Guns of August : The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * "A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill's statement that the first month of World War I was 'a drama never surpassed.'"-- Newsweek Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. 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. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. 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. The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era
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