Guns of August

Name: Guns of August
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ISBN: 9780026203104

ISBN-10: 0026203103

ISBN-13: 9780026203104

Edition: N/A

Authors: Barbara W. Tuchman

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" More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Scribner
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 511
Weight: 2.266
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Author's Note


Illustrations


Maps



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


Outbreak



August 1: Berlin



August 1: Paris and London



Ultimatum in Brussels



"Home Before the Leaves Fall"


Battle



"Goeben ... An Enemy Then Flying"



Liege and Alsace



BEF to the Continent



Sambre 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"



Afterword


Sources


Notes


Index