Tuchman, Barbara W.
The guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman ; [with a foreword by Robert K. Massie]. - 1st Presidio Press Mass Market ed. - New York : Ballantine : Presidio Press, 2004, c1994. - xxiv, 606 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1962. With new foreword. Includes Index
A funeral --
"Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" --
"The shadow of Sedan" --
"A single British soldier ..." --
The Russian steam roller --
August 1: Berlin --
August 1: Paris and London --
Ultimatum in Brussels --
"Home before the leaves fall" --
"Goeben ... and enemy then flying" --
Liege and Alsace --
BEF to the continent --
Sambre et Meuse --
Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons --
"The Cossacks are coming!" --
Tannenberg --
The flames of Louvain --
Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral --
Retreat --
The front is Paris --
Von Kluck's turn --
"Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne" --
Afterward.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.
0345476093 (pbk.) : 9780345476098 (pbk.)
World War--Campaigns--Western Front.--1914-1918
940.421 Tuc 15
The guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman ; [with a foreword by Robert K. Massie]. - 1st Presidio Press Mass Market ed. - New York : Ballantine : Presidio Press, 2004, c1994. - xxiv, 606 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1962. With new foreword. Includes Index
A funeral --
"Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" --
"The shadow of Sedan" --
"A single British soldier ..." --
The Russian steam roller --
August 1: Berlin --
August 1: Paris and London --
Ultimatum in Brussels --
"Home before the leaves fall" --
"Goeben ... and enemy then flying" --
Liege and Alsace --
BEF to the continent --
Sambre et Meuse --
Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons --
"The Cossacks are coming!" --
Tannenberg --
The flames of Louvain --
Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral --
Retreat --
The front is Paris --
Von Kluck's turn --
"Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne" --
Afterward.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.
0345476093 (pbk.) : 9780345476098 (pbk.)
World War--Campaigns--Western Front.--1914-1918
940.421 Tuc 15