The 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.
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- Macmillan
- Year
- 1962
- ISBN-13
- 9780786165759
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- World War IMilitary strategyEuropean diplomacy
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(1963)
Other awarded books from Barbara W. Tuchman
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