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  <title><![CDATA[The Guns of August]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research.&quot;&lt;br&gt;CHICAGO TRIBUNE&lt;br&gt;Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning 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't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Guns of August is the best researched book I’ve ever read so far with such poised and skillful narrative style. Tuchman managed to entertain her readers with vivid, incredible details about the prelude to the first thirty days of World War I. She never cease in captivating our minds with epic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30509633">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't like technical books about military maneuvers--all that blather about Colonel Blimp, General von Bomb-them-all, and Prince Icantmakeupmymind, and the 5th Army Group attacks the XVI Corps on the right salient---yawn...<br/>Welcome to a book that makes all this nearly understandable. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29294593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by consummate historian Barbara Tuchman in 1962, the Guns of August is, without exaggeration, one of the most significant works of history ever written. It focuses entirely on the run up to mankind’s greatest disaster, the First World War, and describes in elegant, often humorous, and alwa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11511114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first non-fiction history book that read so much like a good novel that I screamed through it almost without pausing for breath.  I knew bits and pieces about World War I before this... but the persistent idiocy of so many involved simply held me riveted to the pages.  One of my favorit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8111366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only on here to prove to my as-yet-nonexistent Goodreads friends that I read non-fiction.  But it really is a great book.  Focuses on the leadup and first month of World War I, establishing the trench warfare deadlock that stretched out over the following years.  Dense, but readable, with that gnawi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12589999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read some books on WW II recently, and realized I don't know much about WW I - so decided to remedy that with this Pulitzer Prize winner, considered by many to be one of the best histories ever written. It's a broad and comprehensive treatment of the month preceding the start of the conflict, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38401185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Germany came close to winning the First World War in the first month of fighting. German commanders confidently expected to march their exhausted troops into Paris in the first week of September. The French Government has already fled the capital. It was to be the crowning glory of a month of victor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74216074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning of WWI from the perspective of all of the major countries involved. The author has done amazing research to bring all of the different characters and events to life-everything from a general's mustache to the petty arguments between politicians. However, the detail was too much for me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77542371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very well written book. Quite interesting all the way through, even when it got into the specific military movements near the end. I am familiar with the period, but since my interest was in radical politics, I didn;t know much about the specirics of the war or the personalities. Amazing the degre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52732224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You could almost be excused for thinking that the highest praise one could give a work of non-fiction would be that it reads like a work of fiction.  I haven’t looked at any of the other reviews for this book yet, but I would be prepared to bet that many of them say this read like a novel.  And it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53942535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tuchman's first major work, this narrative of the first month of World War I is compelling mostly because of her sardonic wit. Time and again she pokes fun at the major players while dissecting both their strengths and their weaknesses. The result is a fair, balanced view of an extraordinarily turbu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55282771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Guns of August puts the events preceding World War I and the first month of fighting into an intriguing narrative that outlines the war's broad historical, social, and geopolitical impact, as well as the detailed tactical developments of the German, Russian, French, and British armies.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76020942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another of Barbara Tuchman's awesome history books.  This one covers just the first month of fighting in Europe during World War I (August 1914).  She details the Schlieffen plan (&quot;Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve&quot;) so well and the brutality of the German ons...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61098335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely outstanding book.  After Richard Rhodes epic The Making of the Atomic Bomb, this is the second best book I have read.  The quality and detail of the research is incredible.  The literary style is spectacular, even more so when you consider how clearly it relates a series of historical eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51974123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This history is well written, and it's thesis is compelling: the irreducible significance of a single month, August, 1914, in human history.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best historical works I have ever read, which is saying a great deal because I have read a lot of very good ones. Published in 1962, just in time for President John F. Kennedy to read it before the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the very precipice of Armageddon. Tuchman's book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65089528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books, a gripping account of the first month of the first World War. This book may well be the reason that I read military history at all. Tuchman is a wonderful writer, who effortlessly discusses military strategy and the movement of masses of troops while providing humanizing de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65886412">more...</a>]]></body>
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