The Guns of August
Publisher: Presidio Press
Published: August 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780345476098
Subjects: History; History - Military / War; Military; Military - World War I; History / Military / World War I; Modern - 20th Century; Reference; Campaigns; Western Front; World War, 1914-1918
First sentence: SO GORGEOUS was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration.