Guns Of August: The Drama of August 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today [Illustrated] Cover
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Guns Of August The Drama of August 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today [Illustrated]

Barbara Tuchman

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,...

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The host recalled reading Barbara Tuchman's *The Guns of August* in college, noting it explained how the chaotic world order before World WarI led to the outbreak of the war and later shaped postWorldII institutions.

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And there was a book about World War I that was written by an author by the name of Barbara Tuchman. I think it's called The Guns of August. About what led up to World War I. And I remember reading th...

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The host recalled reading Barbara Tuchman's *The Guns of August* in college, noting it explained how the chaotic world order before World WarI led to the outbreak of the war and later shaped postWorldII institutions.

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And there was a book about World War I that was written by an author by the name of Barbara Tuchman. I think it's called The Guns of August. About what led up to World War I. And I remember reading that book in college.

And the global world order was so chaotic that, you know, finally, when there was one final spark, it created this world war situation.

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