Guns of August
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning history book by Barbara Tuchman about the origins and opening months of World War I.
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A Distant Mirror
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Tuchman's other history book
Both are by Barbara Tuchman. Guns of August covers WWI's origins; A Distant Mirror covers 14th-century calamities.
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Both are by Barbara Tuchman. Guns of August covers WWI's origins; A Distant Mirror covers 14th-century calamities.
"She wrote Guns of August about the origins of World War One. A great book. Not a biography, but a fantastic book. And by the way, very influential book. It shows how you can get caught up in a vortex — forces started to mobilize and it a..."
By Barbara Tuchman, who also wrote A Distant Mirror
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"She wrote Guns of August about the origins of World War One. A great book. Not a biography, but a fantastic book. And by the way, very influential book. It shows how you can get caught up in a vortex — forces started to mobilize and it almost coul..."
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