Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
A Berlin crowd listens as a German officer reads Wilhelm II's order for mobilisation, 1 August 1914. On 31 July, Wilhelm wrote that the Triple Entente had conspired to entrap Germany in its treaty obligations with Austria-Hungary "as a pretext for waging a war of annihilation against us". [aq]
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]
Pages 314-316, in the chapter titled 'The Flames of Louvain', deal exclusively with the German treatment of Belgian civilians based on a supposed precept of Clausewitz. [Writer and date unknown, but probably 76.23.31.171, 24 August 2014]. Fischer's theories went far beyond the Septemberprogramm (merely one of the more prominent documents he used).
The July 3 bombardment was likely the largest of the war, [note 2] with hundreds of cannons from both sides firing along the lines for one to two hours, [note 3] starting around 1 p.m. Confederate guns numbered between 150 and 170 [note 4] and fired from a line over two miles (3 km) long, starting in the south at the Peach Orchard and running ...
Hill was born on 24 February 1889 into a working class family in London (his father was a warehouseman). He excelled at school in science disciplines. Between 1907–9 he studied for and gained a BSc in chemistry at University College, University of London, and completed a course in teaching in 1910, becoming a certified teacher after which he worked at schools in North London.
By the morning of July 2, six of the seven corps of the Army of the Potomac had arrived on the battlefield. The I Corps (Maj. Gen. John Newton, replacing Abner Doubleday) and the XI Corps (Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard) had fought hard on the first day, and they were joined that evening by the yet-unengaged troops of the XII Corps (Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum), III Corps (Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles ...