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.
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.
Dazzling
*Max Hastings*
Magnificent. A masterpiece of the historian's art
*Guardian*
A brilliant achievement
*Sunday Telegraph*
Excellent
*Wall Street Journal*
A brilliant piece of military history. A writer with an impeccable
sense of telling detail, Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous
pattern of tragedy and the minutiae which make it human
*Newsweek*
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