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Newsletter Year: | 2004 |
| Structure: | Paperback | Language: | English |
| ISBN: |
9780345476098 |
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9780345476098 |
| Synopsis | |
| ” Extra dramtatic than fiction…THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a elegant legend–fantastically organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained….The manufactured from painstaking and complex study.” CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-successful author Barbara Tuchman has brought to lifestyles some other time the americans and occasions that led as a lot as Worl War I. With attention to exciting part, and an intense info of her arena and its characters, Ms. Tuchman unearths, for the key time, merely how the warfare started, why, and why it would were stopped nonetheless wasn’t. A conventional ancient see of a time and a americans we all settle on to clutch more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST would possibly per chance well no longer be forgotten. On this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-successful memoir, neatly-known historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the key month of World War I: thirty days within the summertime of 1914 that obvious the direction of the battle, the century, and one draw or the other our present world. Initiating with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces every step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it modified into once, with both aspect plotting their warfare for a generation. Dizzyingly entire and spectacularly portrayed with her neatly-known skill for evoking the characters of the warfare’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus” “is a standard for the ages. Reward for “The Weapons of August” “A devoted allotment of defense force ancient previous which proves as a lot as the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s observation that the key month of World War I modified into once ‘a drama by no draw surpassed.'”–“Newsweek” “Extra dramatic than fiction . . . a elegant legend–fantastically organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained.”–“Chicago Tribune” ” ” “A elegant demonstration that with ample art rather in fact devoted ancient previous would possibly per chance well well also additionally be raised to the level of literature.”–“The Recent York Instances” ” ” ” “The Weapons of August”] has a vitality that transcends its legend virtues, which can per chance well well be in fact in depth, and its feel for characterizations, which is stunning.”–“The Wall Road Journal” Cloak: This edition would now not consist of the characterize insert. Chosen by the Neatly-liked Library as one of many 100 most attention-grabbing nonfiction books of all time The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-successful The Weapons of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s traditional histories of the First World War technology On this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-successful memoir, neatly-known historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the key month of World War I: thirty days within the summertime of 1914 that obvious the direction of the battle, the century, and one draw or the other our present world. Initiating with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces every step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it modified into once, with both aspect plotting their warfare for a generation. Dizzyingly entire and spectacularly portrayed with her neatly-known skill for evoking the characters of the warfare’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a standard for the ages. Reward for The Weapons of August “A devoted allotment of defense force ancient previous which proves as a lot as the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s observation that the key month of World War I modified into once ‘a drama by no draw surpassed.'” — Newsweek “Extra dramatic than fiction . . . a elegant legend–fantastically organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained.” — Chicago Tribune “A elegant demonstration that with ample art rather in fact devoted ancient previous would possibly per chance well well also additionally be raised to the level of literature.” — The Recent York Instances ” The Weapons of August ] has a vitality that transcends its legend virtues, which can per chance well well be in fact in depth, and its feel for characterizations, which is stunning.” — The Wall Road Journal From the Alternate Paperback edition. The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-successful memoir of the key month of World War I is now in mass market paperback. Charming . . . One in all the most attention-grabbing works of ancient previous written.–The Recent York Instances. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0345476093 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780345476098 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 30217295 |
| Key Particulars | |
| Author | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| Number Of Pages | 640 pages |
| Structure | Paperback |
| Newsletter Date | 2004-08-03 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random Home Publishing Crew |
| Newsletter Year | 2004 |
| Extra Particulars | |
| Copyright Date | 1994 |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 11.2 Ounces19459027] |
| High | 1.1 In. |
| Width | 4.3 In. |
| Length | 7 In. |
| Aim Viewers | |
| Crew | Alternate |
| Classification Come | |
| LC Classification Number | D530 |
| Dewey Decimal | 940.4/2 |
| Dewey Edition | 21 |
| Evaluations | |
| “A devoted allotment of defense force ancient previous which proves as a lot as the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s observation that the key month of World War I modified into once ‘a drama by no draw surpassed.'” — Newsweek “Extra dramatic than fiction . . . a elegant legend–fantastically organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained.” — Chicago Tribune “A elegant demonstration that with ample art rather in fact devoted ancient previous would possibly per chance well well also additionally be raised to the level of literature.” — The Recent York Instances “[ The Guns of August ] has a vitality that transcends its legend virtues, which can per chance well well be in fact in depth, and its feel for characterizations, which is stunning.” — The Wall Road Journal “Charming . . . One in all the most attention-grabbing works of ancient previous written . . . A swish and glittering efficiency.” The Recent York Instances “MORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . . A MAGNIFICENT NARRATIVE . . . elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained . . . The manufactured from painstaking and complex study.” Chicago Tribune “A BRILLIANT PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY which proves as a lot as the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s observation that the key month of World War I modified into once ‘a drama by no draw surpassed.’ A author with an impeccable sense of telling part, Mrs. Tuchman is ready to evoke both the massive sample of the tragedy and the trivialities which keep it human.” Newsweek “[A] BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED, COMPELLING NARRATIVE.” San Francisco Memoir “AN EPIC NEVER FLAGGING IN SUSPENSE . . . It seemed no longer steadily conceivable that anything else recent of significance would possibly per chance well per chance be talked about about the prelude to and the key month of World War I. But right here is exactly what Mrs. Tuchman has succeeded in doing . . . by reworking the drama’s protagonists as successfully as its colossal supporting forged, from half of-legendary and half of dusky figures into full-dimensional, plausible persons.” The Christian Science Show screen “EXCELLENT . . . [ The Guns of August] has a vitality that transcends its legend virtues.” The Wall Road Journal | |
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