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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.
Record details
- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | 941.4144 TUC (Text) | 000151795 | Nonfiction | Available | - |