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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.
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 ...
By 1887 Wesp also had the 28 cm gun. [11] By 1 July 1888, Haai was the last monitor that still had the 23 cm Armstrong muzzle loaders. [12] Of the Heiligerlee class monitors Cerberus and Bloedhond had the 28 cm gun by January 1884. [13] By August 1887 HNLMS Krokodil and HNLMS Heiligerlee also had the 28 cm No. 1. [11]
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]
The temporary 'Northern Group' was broken up on 27 July and 9th Hvy Bty came under the command of 54th HAG, newly arrived from the UK. However, the scarcity of 4.7-inch ammunition was such that the battery did not fire at all during August. [4] On 13 September the battery fired off 40 rounds of shrapnel at enemy batteries and then pulled out at ...
The invention of gunpowder weapons replaced only catapults and onagers; the change was slow. Buying guns in those days was a costly affair: the cost of one gun was the equivalent of two months' pay for a skilled artisan. [53] By 1450, inventors improved the make of the gun and introduced the matchlock gun. Though inventors came with new ...
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.
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).