Bibliograph

The guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman

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The guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman

Language

eng

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Intended audience

General adult

Literary text for sound recordings

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Main title

The guns of August

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Oclc number

704340431

Responsibility statement

Barbara W. Tuchman

Summary

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."

Table Of Contents

A Funeral -- Plans -- "Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with his Sleeve" -- The Shadow of Sedan -- "A Single British Soldier ..." -- The Russian Steam Roller -- Outbreak -- Outbreak -- August 1: Berlin -- August 1: Paris and London -- Ultimatum in Brussels -- "Home Before the Leaves Fall" -- Battle -- "Goeben ... An Enemy Then Flying" -- Liege and Alsace -- BEF to the Continent -- Sambre et Meuse -- Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons -- "The Cossacks Are Coming!" -- Tannenberg -- The Flames of Louvain -- Blue Water, Blockade, and the Great Neutral -- Retreat -- The Front Is Paris -- Von Kluck's Turn -- "Gentlemen, We Will Fight on the Marne"

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