The Guns Of August

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307567628

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “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.’”—Newsweek Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages. The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era

Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0553026690

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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed--and how horrible it became. Tuchman masterfully portrays this transition from 19th to 20th century, focusing on the turning point in the year 1914: the month leading up to the war and the first month of the war. With fine attention to detail, she reveals how and why the war started, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't, managing to make the story utterly suspenseful even when we already know the outcome.

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345476098

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The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “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.’”—Newsweek Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages. The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era

Author : Barbara Tuchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0241968216

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The Guns of August is the narrative history of the first month of World War I. It describes the strategies of the generals, the preparation and morale of the armies of the nations at war, and the everyday problems of the field commanders.

Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1350542599

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The Guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Pdf

Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the opening of World War I beautifully reissued and repackaged with The Proud Tower and The Zimmerman Telegram as a Modern Library set: Barbara Tuchman's Great War.

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:312617707

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The guns of august by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:873076644

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The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman chronicles the events leading up to and the initial weeks of World War I. The book begins with the grand funeral of King Edward VII in 1910, attended by European royalty and dignitaries, setting the stage for the complex web of alliances and rivalries that would soon lead to war. Tuchman details the strategic partnerships formed by Edward VII, contrasting with Kaiser Wilhelm II's diplomatic missteps...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1114526462

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Author : Svante E. Cornell,S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765629425

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The Guns of August 2008 by Svante E. Cornell,S. Frederick Starr Pdf

In the summer of 2008, a conflict that appeared to have begun in the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia rapidly escalated to become the most significant crisis in European security in a decade. The implications of the Russian-Georgian war will be understood differently depending on one's narrative of what transpired and perspective on the broader context. This book is designed to present the facts about the events of August 2008 along with comprehensive coverage of the background to those events. It brings together a wealth of expertise on the South Caucasus and Russian foreign policy, with contributions by Russian, Georgian, European, and American experts on the region.

Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0553227734

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Guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Pdf

Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0094521107

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August 1914 by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Pdf

This book is centered on the first month of World War I. Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict.

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598531459

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Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August, The Proud Tower (LOA #222) by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the all-too-human failures of leaders subject to the pull of historical currents and prone, often tragically, to the ingrained biases of culture and temperament. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller The Guns of August (1962) offers a majestic orchestration of the diplomatic and military history of the crucial first weeks of World War I. Tuchman's observations about the irrational escalation of conflict made a deep impression on President John F. Kennedy and influenced his actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis; fifty years later, The Guns of August remains an exemplary study of events propelled headlong by their own internal logic and momentum. Some of Tuchman's finest writing is contained in her following book, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 (1966), a fascinating kaleidoscope of eight precisely drawn essays on subjects ranging from international socialism and anarchism to the Dreyfus Affair in France and the birth of American imperialism that collectively set the stage for the cataclysm of 1914. Presented in one volume for the first time and released to mark Tuchman's centennial year and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Guns of August, here is a vivid, indelible panorama of an epoch in transition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307798114

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The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. Praise for The Proud Tower “[Barbara W. Tuchman’s] Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914–1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world.”—Newsweek “A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration.”—The New York Times “An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author’s knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more.”—Chicago Tribune “[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding.”—Time

Author : Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim
Publisher : Brantford : W. Ross Macdonald School
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Large type books
ISBN : OCLC:40385401

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