The Guns of August

Synopses & Reviews
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Publisher Comments:
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman
has brought to life again the people and events that led up to
World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense
knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals,
for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could
have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time
and a people we all need to know more about, The
Guns of August will not be forgotten.
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Review:
"More dramtatic than fiction...The Guns of August is a
magnificent narrative - beautifully organized, elegantly
phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of
painstaking and sophisticated research." The
Chicago Tribune
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Review:
"Fascinating...one of the finest works of history written...a
splendid and glittering performance."
The New York Times
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Review:
"A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt
the force of Winston Churchill's statement that the first month
of World War I was 'a drama never surpassed.' A writer with an
impeccable sense of telling detail, Ms. Tuchman is able to evoke
both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which
make it human."
Newsweek
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Review:
"An epic never flagging in suspense....It seemed hardly possible that
anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and
the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Ms. Tuchman
has succeeded in doing....Where she has improved upon her
predecessors is in illuminating, practically inch by inch, the roads
by which the fateful decisions were reached in Berlin, Paris, St.
Petersburg, and London and by transforming the drama's
protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast from half-
legendary and half-shadowy figures into full-dimensional,
believable persons."
The Christian Science Monitor
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Review:
"In provoking musing thoughts Ms. Tuchman has no contemporary
equal. Her book, thus, has a vitality that transcends its narrative
virtues, which are considerable, and its feel for characterizations,
which is excellent."
The Wall Street Journal
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Synopsis:
"More dramatic than fiction..THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent
narrative-beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and
sustained...The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman
has brought to life again the people and events that led up to
World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense
knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals,
for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could
have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time
and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF
AUGUST will not be forgotten.