The story of how this happened and the incalculable consequences are thrillingly told in Barbara Tuchman's brilliant exploration.
Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Proud Tower are published by Penguin.
A most exciting book, full of vivid pen portraits and curious
episodes
*Sunday Times*
As thrilling as a John Buchan novel
*Times Literary Supplement*
Its 200 pages are worth more than all the thrillers and whodunits
of the fiction writers put together
*Herald*
A fine exciting book told with intense drama. A thriller of real
life
*Observer*
Brilliant. Told with great literary and dramatic talent
*New York Times*
All the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy thriller
*Saturday Review*
Dazzling
*Max Hastings on 'Guns of August'*
Magnificent. A masterpiece of the historian's art
*Guardian*
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