The Guns of August
the classic bestselling account of the outbreak of the first world war
$24.01
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2014
Summary
The Guns of August: A Descent into WWI
War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use …
Barbara Tuchman’s universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account of the conflict’s opening. From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, Tuc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241968215 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241968216 |
| Author: | Barbara Tuchman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 466g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 35mm |
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Critics Review
Dazzling – Max HastingsMagnificent. A masterpiece of the historian’s art * Guardian *A brilliant achievement * Sunday Telegraph *Excellent * Wall Street Journal *A brilliant piece of military history. A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of tragedy and the minutiae which make it human * Newsweek *
About The Author
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Proud Tower are published by Penguin.
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