The Guns of August

"More dramatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."--CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people & events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, & an intense knowledge of her subject & its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals just how the war started, why, & why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time & a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.