The Guns of August, (Paperback)

from Choccy

The Guns of August is the best researched book I've ever read so far with such poised and skillful narrative style. Tuchman managed to entertain her readers with vivid, incredible details about the prelude to the first thirty days of World War I. She never cease in captivating our minds with epic...

from NPJacobsen

If you like your histories factual and documented, then Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August" is the book for you. Tuchman details the politics and the miltary planning that brought the world to the war to end all wars, and hundreds of thousands of young men to their deaths. All the main players...

from tuckerresearch

An excellent narrative account of the August 1914 (going back a little and into September 1914 a little). Tuchman scours the primary source records available to her at the time and covers all sides in equal fashion. The prime point she makes, over and over again, is that large government bureaucr...

from brenzi

"So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and blue and green and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode throug...

from anna_in_pdx

I am not a very apt student of history, particularly military history. I am also of the generation that grew up in the 80s. World War I was not something I knew much about, apart from having read All Quiet on the Western Front in high school. I also come from a nonmilitary family. However, I had ...