The Guns of August

<p><b>Barbara Tuchman's <i>The Guns of August</i> is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.</b><br><br><i>War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .</i><br><br>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 <i>the</i> classic account of the conflict's opening. From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914 Tuchman shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum.<br><br><b>'Dazzling' Max Hastings<br><br>'Magnificent' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'Fascinating splendid glittering. One of the finest works of history' <i>New York Times<br></i><br>'A brilliant achievement' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b></p>