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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.
(August 2024) (Learn how and when ... 1914 World War I: 94,000 51,000 Siege of Antwerp: 1914 World War I: 58,000 36,000 ... List of wars by death toll;
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.
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 photo of the Ohio Injector Co. worker unloading crates from a horse-drawn wagon appears to have been taken at a loading dock behind the train station, Erik Rinaldo noted. ... Today the site is ...
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)
In 1914, during the first Christmas of the Great War, a most astounding event took place. Fighting had begun in August, but by December, the combat was at a stalemate. Both sides dug trenches ...
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]