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The Guns of August
By Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of the first month of the First World War, when the decisions of August 1914 locked Europe into four years of slaughter. With novelistic skill she traces how the great powers stumbled into a war none of them could stop, undone by rigid plans, miscalculation, and pride. Though it is about 1914, it is essential reading for understanding why the Second World War followed, and it stands as one of the finest works of narrative history ever writt…
640 pages📅 1962
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Barbara Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of the first month of the First World War, when the decisions of August 1914 locked Europe into four years of slaughter. With novelistic skill she traces how the great powers stumbled into a war none of them could stop, undone by rigid plans, miscalculation, and pride. Though it is about 1914, it is essential reading for understanding why the Second World War followed, and it stands as one of the finest works of narrative history ever written.
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