Rodney's Distributors Posted July 31, 2021 Report Share Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) The Guns of August $25 shipped REDUCED $20 shipped REDUCED $17 shipped The Guns of August First edition cover Author Barbara W. Tuchman Country United States Language English Genre Military history, narrative history Published 1962 (Macmillan) Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 511 OCLC 30087894 Dewey Decimal 940.4/144 20 LC Class D530 .T8 1994 The Guns of August (1962) (published in the UK as August 1914) is a volume of history by Barbara W. Tuchman. It is centered on the first month of World War I. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict. Its focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers. The Guns of August thus provides a narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the start of the Franco-British offensive that stopped the German advance into France. The result was four years of trench warfare. In the course of her narrative Tuchman includes discussion of the plans, strategies, world events, and international sentiments before and during the war. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for publication year 1963,[1] and proved very popular. Tuchman later returned to the subject of the social attitudes and issues that existed before World War I, which she had touched upon in The Guns of August, in a collection of eight essays published in 1966 under the title The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914.[2] Contents 1Summary 1.1A funeral 1.2Plans 1.3Outbreak 1.4Battle 1.4.1Mediterranean 1.4.2Western Front 1.4.3Russia and Germany 1.4.4Flames of Louvain 1.4.5War at sea 1.4.6Paris defended 1.5Afterword 2Miscalculations leading to war 3Cultural impact 4Tuchman in the narrative 5Film adaptation 6References 7External links Kennedy / Theodore C. Sorensen Special Counsel to the Late President First Edition 783 pages Hardcover $36 shipped REDUCED $20 shipped or buy BOTH BOOKS $30 shipped. Photos Below Edited September 23, 2021 by Rodney's Distributors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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