The guns of August
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
Notes: London ed. (Constable) has title: August 1914.
Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1963.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time.
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Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: 1. A funeral; title: Plans.; title: 2. "Let the last man on the right brush the Channel with his sleeve"; title: 3. The shadow of Sedan; title: 4. "A single British soldier ..."; title: 5. The Russian steam roller; title: Outbreak.; title: 6. August 1: Berlin; title: 7. August 1: Paris and London; title: 8. Ultimatum in Brussels; title: 9. "Home before the leaves fall"; title: Battle.; title: 10. "Goeben ... an enemy then flying"; title: 11. Liège and Alsace; title: 12. BEF to the continent; title: 13. Sambre et Meuse; title: 14. Debacle : Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons; title: 15. "The Cossacks are coming!"; title: 16. Tannenberg; title: 17. The flames of Louvain; title: 18. Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral; title: 19. Retreat; title: 20. The front is Paris; title: 21. Von Kluck's turn; title: 22. "Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne"; title: Afterward