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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. Guns of August. New York : Bantam Books, 1976, ©1962 (OCoLC)560720200 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: | Barbara W Tuchman |
ISBN: | 0553026690 9780553026696 |
OCLC Number: | 2701627 |
Notes: | London ed. (Constable) has title: August 1914. |
Description: | 575 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm |
Contents: | A funeral -- "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 1: Berlin -- August 1: Paris and London -- Ultimatum in Brussels -- "Home before the leaves fall" -- "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." |
Responsibility: | Barbara W. Tuchman. |
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Abstract:
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed--and how horrible it became. Tuchman masterfully portrays this transition from 19th to 20th century, focusing on the turning point in the year 1914: the month leading up to the war and the first month of the war. With fine attention to detail, she reveals how and why the war started, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't, managing to make the story utterly suspenseful even when we already know the outcome.
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