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This is a HORRIBLE book! I had to read it for AP European History, but I tend to like books that teachers require you to read. However, this one was an over-the-top detailed description of the first month of WWI. It seriously will take you a month if you read a chapter a day, and the chapters are extremely long and boring. Oftentime, she delves into pointless military tactics that she assumes you already know. I love history; don't get me wrong! But told through this woman's eyes, history is a bunch of boring facts that somehow conclude to something she sometimes states explicitly. DON'T READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!
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The Guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
gwcrews, August 24, 2006
This is a HORRIBLE book! I had to read it for AP European History, but I tend to like books that teachers require you to read. However, this one was an over-the-top detailed description of the first month of WWI. It seriously will take you a month if you read a chapter a day, and the chapters are extremely long and boring. Oftentime, she delves into pointless military tactics that she assumes you already know. I love history; don't get me wrong! But told through this woman's eyes, history is a bunch of boring facts that somehow conclude to something she sometimes states explicitly. DON'T READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!(10 of 27 readers found this comment helpful)