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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: | Barbara W Tuchman |
| ISBN: | 0345476093 9780345476098 |
| OCLC Number: | 56578385 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1962. With new foreword. |
| Description: | xxviii, 606 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm |
| Contents: | Foreword / Robert K. Massie -- Plans: "Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" "; Shadow of Sedan; Single British soldier ... "; Russian steam roller -- 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, lorrane, ardennes, charleroi, mons; "Cossacks are coming!"; Tannenberg; Flames of Louvain; Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral; Retreat; Front is Paris; Von Kluck's turn; "Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne" -- Afterword. |
| Responsibility: | Barbara W. Tuchman ; [with a foreword by Robert K. Massie]. |
Abstract:
A Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.
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