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The guns of August / Barbara W. Tuchman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Causes.
- Guerre mondiale (1914-1918). Histoire de la guerre.
- Guerre mondiale (1914-1918). Opérations front occidental.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western fronts.
- Military campaigns.
- Western Front (World War (1914-1918)).
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns.
- Local Subjects:
- Guerre mondiale (1914-1918). Histoire de la guerre.
- Guerre mondiale (1914-1918). Opérations front occidental.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western fronts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Williams, Richard Norris, 2nd (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Williams, Richard Norris, 2nd, Mrs. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, 1962.
- Summary:
- Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't.
- Contents:
- A funeral
- "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
- August 1: Berlin
- August 1: Paris and London
- Ultimatum in Brussels
- "Home before the leaves fall"
- "Goeben ... and enemy then flying"
- Liege and Alsace
- BEF to the continent
- Sambre 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"
- Afterward.
- Notes:
- London ed. (Constable) has title: August 1914.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1963.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. Guns of August.
- OCLC:
- 192333
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