description: "More dramatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."--CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people &amp; events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, &amp; an intense knowledge of her subject &amp; its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals just how the war started, why, &amp; why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time &amp; a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.
language: English
title: The Guns of August
titlecomplete: The Guns of August
genres: Military History, History, Politics, World War I, European History, Historical, World History, War, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 74074
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: -220896000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Recorded Books, LLC