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] Tapa dura - 1986

The Guns of August, also published as August 1914 (1962), is a military history book written by Barbara Tuchman. It primarily describes in great detail the events of the first month of World War I, which for most of the great powers involved in the war was August 1914.The focus of The Guns of August is to provide the history of World War I from the declaration of war through to the start of the Franco-British offensive that stopped the German advance through France. In addition, the book provides a brief history of the plans, strategies, world events and international sentiments prior to and during the war. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction for publication year 1962.Tuchman would later return to a subject she had touched upon in The Guns of August, namely the social attitudes and issues which had existed prior to World War I, in a collection of eight essays published in 1966 under the title The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (1966)