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In her terse account of this event, Barbara Tuchman analyzes the first 30 days of battle in the summer of 1914 -- a month which determined the course of WW I and ultimately the political shape of our present world. Tuchman begins with the funeral of Edward VII and traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, for this war had been planned by each side for a generation.
"THE GUNS OF AUGUST is an epic never flagging in suspense, and Barbara Tuchman is a first-rate scholar and writer...its lessons are still valid today, a reminder to presidents, prime ministers and generals of war's treacheries and pitfalls." (Washington Post)
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Reviewer: Halena Cline (see other books I've reviewed) | March 29, 2004 |
| This is an astounding account of WWI and has been something of a revelation to me.
I would like to believe that we, the human race, could learn from the egocentric, hegemonic illusion of the past, but it appears not. So it goes on and on and on
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The reader wasnt someone I could listen to comfortably; parts of sentences were read so accelerated that I had to do many rewinds in order to comprehend the story. Still, the book is something of a historical treasure. |
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Reviewer: Jay F. And Anne Schamberg (see other books I've reviewed) | May 10, 2003 |
| Historical writing at its best. An absorbing account. |
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Reviewer: RICHARD ROCK (see other books I've reviewed) | April 17, 2003 |
| The early Fench disaster in World War 1 was the direct result of their insistence on using the lessons of one war to fight the next. They repeated this mistake ithirty years later. While this books is a terrific example of historical writing, I find that it also challenges us to learn the correct lessons from history when planning for the future. This is especially important in our post September 11 pursuit of a strategy to combat terror. I highly recommend this book. |
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Reviewer: Daniel Cohen | June 26, 2002 |
| Like many people of my generation, I always found the First World War remote and mysterious; unlike the Second, for which the proximate causes and major players are immediate and fresh in our collective memory. This book did an excellent job of painting vivid portraits of the cast of characters, and following their motivations and passions as they stumbled inexorably toward the "War to end war." Reading about such details as the French and their red trousers, one sees the events depicted here as marking the end of the romantic past and the start of the modern age. |
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Reviewer: Michael Rybka (see other books I've reviewed) | March 22, 2002 |
| Excellent book. In a very entertaining and easily to listen to manner, the author develops many of the factors that lead to the beginning of the war, and explains not only what happened, but why the early days of the war went as they did. This is an important part of history that I knew too little about. |
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