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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.
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.
Barbara Wertheim was born January 30, 1912, the daughter of the banker Maurice Wertheim and his first wife Alma Morgenthau. Her father was an individual of wealth and prestige, the owner of The Nation magazine, president of the American Jewish Committee, prominent art collector, and a founder of the Theatre Guild. [3]
Explosion in explosives manufacturing plant destroyed facility, caused extensive damage in nearby Berkeley. Official death toll was 49, though estimates of unrecovered bodies ran higher. [47] [failed verification] 49 1917 Shepherdsville train wreck: Accident – railroad Shepherdsville, Kentucky: 49 1936 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak
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 ...
Tuchman gave French casualties for August as 206,515 from Armées Françaises and Herwig gave French casualties for September as 213,445, also from Armées Françaises for a total of just under 420,000 in the first two months of the war. [76] According to Roger Chickering, German casualties for the 1914 campaigns on the Western Front were ...
The civilian death toll was about 6 to 13 million. [1] [2] The Triple Entente ... The losses were for the period 4 August 1914 until 30 September 1919, included ...
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