The guns of August
"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." -- Page [4] of cover
Print Book, English, 1994
First Ballantine Books edition View all formats and editions
Ballantine, New York, 1994
Nonfiction
xxiv, 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780345386236, 9780613187176, 034538623X, 0613187172
30087894
Foreword / by Robert K. Massie
Preface
Author's note
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"
Afterword
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1962. With new foreword