The Guns of August

by Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim

• ISBN13: 9780026203111
• ISBN10: 0026203111
• Edition: 25th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-02-01
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co

Summary

" 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 TRIBUNEHistorian 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.

Author Biography

Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram, and international fame with The Guns of August--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed other successes, including The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xv
Author's Note	p. xix
Illustrations	p. xxiii
Maps	p. xxiv
A Funeral	p. 1
Plans
"Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with his Sleeve"	p. 17
The Shadow of Sedan	p. 28
"A Single British Soldier ..."	p. 44
The Russian Steam Roller	p. 56
Outbreak
Outbreak	p. 71
August 1: Berlin	p. 73
August 1: Paris and London	p. 84
Ultimatum in Brussels	p. 98
"Home Before the Leaves Fall"	p. 112
Battle
"Goeben ... An Enemy Then Flying"	p. 137
Liege and Alsace	p. 163
BEF to the Continent	p. 194
Sambre et Meuse	p. 206
Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons	p. 231
"The Cossacks Are Coming!"	p. 263
Tannenberg	p. 290
The Flames of Louvain	p. 310
Blue Water, Blockade, and the Great Neutral	p. 325
Retreat	p. 341
The Front Is Paris	p. 373
Von Kluck's Turn	p. 395
"Gentlemen, We Will Fight on the Marne"	p. 413
Afterword	p. 435
Sources	p. 441
Notes	p. 457
Index	p. 491
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