The Guns of August
  • Published: 10 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968215
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Guns of August

The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War

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10 Jul 2014
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5 Jun 2014
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Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary

War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .

Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account of the conflict's opening. From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, Tuchman shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum.
  • Published: 10 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968215
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for The Guns of August

Dazzling

Max Hastings

Magnificent. A masterpiece of the historian's art

Guardian

A brilliant achievement

Sunday Telegraph

Excellent

Wall Street Journal

A brilliant piece of military history. A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of tragedy and the minutiae which make it human

Newsweek