The Guns of August
The Pulitzer PrizeWinning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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“@mattdpearce loved that book. | So beautifully written. But more importantly, for me, she was writing about battles and military stuff and things that you don’t imagine that sometimes a woman might be so adept at.”
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Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including James Mattis and Brad Feld
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in World War I, Military History, and War.
Historian and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and how it could have been stopped but wasn'...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in World War I, Military History, and War.
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“@mattdpearce loved that book. | So beautifully written. But more importantly, for me, she was writing about battles and military stuff and things that you don’t imagine that sometimes a woman might be so adept at.”
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Consider War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Recommended by 12 sources.
“This is a vast, character-centered historical novel that moves between drawing-room conversations, battlefield narration and extended reflections on history and free will. You’ll spend long stretches inside the heads of several aristocratic families while the nation slides toward and through war; the reward is sharp psychological observation and richly textured social detail. The main limitation is scale: scenes repeat themes at length and Tolstoy stops to argue about historical causation, which breaks narrative momentum for readers who want a tighter plot.”
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