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The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

  • FINISHED
  • Finished December 2023
  • First published 1962

history war

Covers the first month of the First World War, from the diplomacy and war plans of 1914 to the battles on the Marne.   Tuchman argues that rigid military timetables and misjudged assumptions pushed the great powers into a long war.

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