The Guns of August

Brief Summary

August 1914. The world stood on the edge of catastrophe, but almost no one saw it coming. In "The Guns of August", Barbara Tuchman tells the story of the first month of World War I, when Europe had just entered one of the biggest wars known to men back then. She brings to life the generals who made fateful decisions, the diplomats who failed to stop them, and the soldiers who paid the price.