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The guns of August : the outbreak of World War 1 / Barbara W. Tuchman.

By: Publication details: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014, c1962.Description: xxviii, 566 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780345386236 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.4/144 23
Summary: "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 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
900 - 999 Hanover Public Library Shelves Non-fiction 940.4144 TUCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001270140

Originally published in hardcover in 1962 by The Macmillan Publishing Company.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 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.

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