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More copies of this ISBN:The Guns of Augustby Barbara W Tuchman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. 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. Review:"More dramtatic 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." The Chicago Tribune Review:"Fascinating...one of the finest works of history written...a splendid and glittering performance." The New York Times Review:"A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill's statement that the first month of World War I was 'a drama never surpassed.' A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Ms. Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human." Newsweek Review:"An epic never flagging in suspense....It seemed hardly possible that anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Ms. Tuchman has succeeded in doing....Where she has improved upon her predecessors is in illuminating, practically inch by inch, the roads by which the fateful decisions were reached in Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, and London and by transforming the drama's protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast from half-legendary and half-shadowy figures into full-dimensional, believable persons." The Christian Science Monitor Review:"In provoking musing thoughts Ms. Tuchman has no contemporary equal. Her book, thus, has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtes, which are considerable, and its feel for characterizations, which is excellent." The Wall Street Journal Synopsis:"More dramtatic 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 Worl 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. 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. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-455) and index. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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