- Campaigns, European War, 1914-1918, Western Front, World War, 1914-1918
Published to immediate acclaim in 1962 and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1963, The Guns of August is the classic account of the cataclysmic outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the 30 days of battle that followed.
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Barbara Tuchman
- First published
- May 2005
- Pages
- 575
- Publisher
- RBA, History Book Club, Bantam
- Editions
- 52
- Language
- English, heb, Spanish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780786165759
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“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.”
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