The Guns of August

Name: The Guns of August
Author: Barbara Tuchman

by Barbara Tuchman

First month of World War One as pivotal moment determining twentieth-century history

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Barbara Tuchman

American historian who won two Pulitzer Prizes writing popular history of sweeping ambition and narrative drive. The Guns of August is the definitive account of the outbreak of World War I; A Distant Mirror is a vivid portrait of 14th-century Europe through the Black Death. She never held a university appointment.

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