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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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)