Guns Of August: The Drama of August 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today [Illustrated]

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 why it could have been stopped but wasnt. 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.