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  2. The Guns of August - Wikipedia

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    The Guns of August (published in the UK as August 1914) is a 1962 book centered on the first month of World War I written by Barbara W. Tuchman. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict. The book's focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers.

  3. August 1914 - Wikipedia

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    The following events occurred in August 1914: Headline from newspaper Le Soir , 4 August 1914, declaring Germany had violated Belgium's neutrality. An imagined depiction of the massacre during the Battle of Dinant by the American artist George W. Bellows (1918)

  4. What Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' can teach ... - AOL

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    Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” was released in January 1962. Historian Robert Massie, in the 1994 Foreword, states that “ The Guns of August was an immediate, overwhelming success.

  5. The Proud Tower - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. The Macmillan Company) The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 is a 1966 book by Barbara Tuchman, consisting of a collection of essays she had published in various periodicals during the mid-1960s. It followed the publication of the highly successful book The Guns of August (published in Britain as August 1914). Each chapter deals with a ...

  6. Talk:The Guns of August - Wikipedia

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    I'm having a devil of a time tracking down some Clausewitz quotes. My source is The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. Tuchman says (p 39) that among Clausewitz' objectives of war is that of "gaining great victories and possession of the enemy's capital." Guns gives the cite for this (from the 3-volume Graham translation) as Clausewitz III, 209-10.

  7. Battle of Tannenberg - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War I. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov .

  8. Category:1914 meteorology - Wikipedia

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