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"More dramtatic than misinformation,THE GUNS OF AUGUST is just a wonderful story--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained,.The product of careful and sophisticated research."Detroit TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer prize winning author Barbara Tuchman has taken alive again the folks and events that led as much as Worl War I. With focus on fascinating detail, and a powerful understanding of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman shows, for the very first time, so just how the war started, why, and why it might have now been halted but was not. A vintage historical survey of a people and the period all of us have to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST won't be-forgotten.