While she did not explicitly mention it in her book "The Guns of August", Tuchman was present for one of the pivotal events of the book: the pursuit of the German battle cruiser "Goeben" and light cruiser "Breslau". In her account of the pursuit she wrote, "That morning [August 10, 1914] there arrived in Constantinople the small Italian passenger steamer which had witnessed the "Gloucester"'s action against "Goeben" and "Breslau". Among its passengers were the daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren of the American ambassador Mr. Henry Morgenthau." As she was a grandchild of Henry Morgenthau, she is referring to herself, which is confirmed in her later book "Practicing History", in which she tells the story of her father, Maurice Wertheim, traveling from Constantinople to Jerusalem on August 29, 1914, to deliver funds to the Jewish community there. Thus, at two, Tuchman was present during the pursuit of "Goeben" and "Breslau", which she documented 48 years later.