THE GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)—Barbara W. Tuchman—Macmillan ($6.95). World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of ...
August can often be the cruelest of months. Just read Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” to get a sense of the series of misplays, miscalculations and miscommunications that sparked the first ...
Title on book cover, "The First Salute: a view of the American Revolution". https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...
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