The Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the outbreak of World War I
Historian & Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to WWI. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, she reveals 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.
2. “Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with His Sleeve”
4. “A Single British Soldier …”
9. “Home Before the Leaves Fall”
10. “Goeben … An Enemy Then Flying”
14. Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons
15. “The Cossacks Are Coming!”
18. Blue Water, Blockade, and the Great Neutral
22. “Gentlemen, We Will Fight on the Marne”
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