The guns of August : the outbreak of World War I
(2014)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.4/TUCHMAN,B

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 940.4/TUCHMAN,B Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014
EDITION
Random House trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION

xxviii, 566 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
034538623X, 9780345386236, 034538623X, 9780345386236
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally published 1962; preface ©1988; foreword ©1994; maps ©2014

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 : August I: Berlin ; August I: Paris and London ; Ultimatum in Brussels ; "Home before the leaves fall" -- Battle : "Goeben ... an enemy then flying" ; Liége and Alsace ; BEF to the continent ; Sanbre 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."

Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the opening of World War I beautifully reissued and repackaged with The Proud Tower and The Zimmerman Telegram as a Modern Library set: Barbara Tuchman's Great War

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Pulitzer Prize, 1963

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