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The Guns of August

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2009-07-22
ISBN 10 : 9780307567628
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (676 downloads)

Download The Guns of August in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—Newsweek Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages. The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era

The Guns of August

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher :
Release Date : 2014-06-05
ISBN 10 : 0241968216
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (419 downloads)

Download The Guns of August in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .' Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account of the conflict's opening. From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, Tuchman shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum. 'Fascinating, splendid, glittering. One of the finest works of history.' New York Times 'Excellent.' Wall Street Journal 'Brilliant, exciting.' Washington Post 'Brilliant . . . grips the mind.' New Yorker 'A brilliant achievement.' Sunday Telegraph

The Guns of August

Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher : Bantam
Release Date : 1982
ISBN 10 : 0553254014
Pages : 575 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (532 downloads)

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The Guns of August

Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1962
ISBN 10 : 0026203111
Pages : 511 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (262 downloads)

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The Guns of August

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher :
Release Date : 1973
ISBN 10 : OCLC:873076644
Pages : pages
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The Guns of August 2008

Author : Svante E. Cornell
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-01-28
ISBN 10 : 9781317456537
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (565 downloads)

Download The Guns of August 2008 in PDF Full Online Free by Svante E. Cornell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2008, a conflict that appeared to have begun in the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia rapidly escalated to become the most significant crisis in European security in a decade. The implications of the Russian-Georgian war will be understood differently depending on one's narrative of what transpired and perspective on the broader context. This book is designed to present the facts about the events of August 2008 along with comprehensive coverage of the background to those events. It brings together a wealth of expertise on the South Caucasus and Russian foreign policy, with contributions by Russian, Georgian, European, and American experts on the region.

Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August, The Proud Tower (LOA #222)

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Library of America
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9781598531459
Pages : 1264 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (314 downloads)

Download Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August, The Proud Tower (LOA #222) in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the all-too-human failures of leaders subject to the pull of historical currents and prone, often tragically, to the ingrained biases of culture and temperament. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller The Guns of August (1962) offers a majestic orchestration of the diplomatic and military history of the crucial first weeks of World War I. Tuchman's observations about the irrational escalation of conflict made a deep impression on President John F. Kennedy and influenced his actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis; fifty years later, The Guns of August remains an exemplary study of events propelled headlong by their own internal logic and momentum. Some of Tuchman's finest writing is contained in her following book, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 (1966), a fascinating kaleidoscope of eight precisely drawn essays on subjects ranging from international socialism and anarchism to the Dreyfus Affair in France and the birth of American imperialism that collectively set the stage for the cataclysm of 1914. Presented in one volume for the first time and released to mark Tuchman's centennial year and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Guns of August, here is a vivid, indelible panorama of an epoch in transition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The Guns of August

Author : Barbara Tuchman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-06-05
ISBN 10 : 9780241968222
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (682 downloads)

Download The Guns of August in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara Tuchman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . . Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account of the conflict's opening. From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, Tuchman shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum. 'Dazzling' Max Hastings 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Fascinating, splendid, glittering. One of the finest works of history' New York Times 'A brilliant achievement' Sunday Telegraph Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Proud Tower and The Zimmerman Telegram are published by Penguin.

Der Schild Europas

Author : Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
Publisher :
Release Date : 1965
ISBN 10 : OCLC:632691972
Pages : 309 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The guns of august

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher :
Release Date : 1965
ISBN 10 : OCLC:312617707
Pages : 575 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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August, 1914. The Guns of August-August, 1914

Author : afterwards TUCHMAN WERTHEIM (Barbara)
Publisher :
Release Date : 1964
ISBN 10 : OCLC:503880182
Pages : 575 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Proud Tower

Author : Barbara Tuchman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-06-05
ISBN 10 : 9780241968253
Pages : 520 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (682 downloads)

Download The Proud Tower in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara Tuchman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower is a haunting account of Britain on the cusp of total war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary. The last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition took office in England in June of 1895 . . . In this now classic work, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the quarter century leading up to the First World War, from the dying embers of the British aristocracy to the fitful eruptions of the anarchist movement. She provides a compelling portrait of the key figures and conflicting ideologies of this time, giving an intimate view of an epoch that was soon to be swept away by the tide of history. 'Her intention is to make the age alive for us, and in that she abundantly succeeds' Daily Telegraph 'Tuchman has a gift of recreating a period and a mood by an inspired selection of detail and sheer narrative sweep. A volcano of a book' Evening Standard 'Impeccable scholarship and literary polish. Impossible to read without pleasure and admiration' New York Times Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Zimmerman Telegram are published by Penguin.

Deutschland und Der Nächste Krieg

Author : Friedrich von Bernhardi
Publisher :
Release Date : 1917
ISBN 10 : WISC:89005816160
Pages : 345 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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A Distant Mirror

Author : Barbara Tuchman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-10-05
ISBN 10 : 9780241972984
Pages : 784 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (729 downloads)

Download A Distant Mirror in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara Tuchman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague. Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes and war dominated the lives of serf, noble and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries and guilty passions, Tuchman recreates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, above all, knights. The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe, a historical tour de force.

The Guns of August

Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1994-03-08
ISBN 10 : 0613187172
Pages : 511 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (131 downloads)

Download The Guns of August in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1994-03-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.

Bible and Sword

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-13
ISBN 10 : 9780307797995
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (979 downloads)

Download Bible and Sword in PDF Full Online Free by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Historically, the British were drawn to the Holy Land for two major reasons: first, to translate the Bible into English and, later, to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, Barbara W. Tuchman follows these twin spiritual and imperial motives—the Bible and the sword—to their seemingly inevitable endpoint, when Britain conquered Palestine at the conclusion of World War I. At that moment, in a gesture of significance and solemnity, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 established a British-sponsored mandate for a national home for the Jewish people. Throughout this characteristically vivid account, Tuchman demonstrates that the seeds of conflict were planted in the Middle East long before the official founding of the modern state of Israel. Praise for Bible and Sword “Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “In her métier as a narrative popular historical writer, Barbara Tuchman is supreme.”—Chicago Sun-Times

Practicing History

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-13
ISBN 10 : 9780307798558
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (985 downloads)

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