The Guns of August

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Tuchman, Barbara W. 저자(글)

Random House Trade · 1994년 03월 08일

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Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram, and international fame with The Guns of August--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed other successes, including The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
"More dramatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.
"Fascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance." The New York Times "MORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . . A MAGNIFICENT NARRATIVE . . . elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained . . . The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." Chicago Tribune "A BRILLIANT PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill's statement that the first month of World War I was 'a drama never surpassed.' A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Mrs. Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human." Newsweek "[A] BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED, COMPELLING NARRATIVE." San Francisco Chronicle "AN EPIC NEVER FLAGGING IN SUSPENSE . . . It seemed hardly possible that anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Mrs. Tuchman has succeeded in doing . . . by transforming the drama's protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast, from half-legendary and half shadowy figures into full-dimensional, believable persons." The Christian Science Monitor "EXCELLENT . . . [ The Guns of August] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues." The Wall Street Journal

작가정보

저자(글) Tuchman, Barbara W.

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.

목차

• Foreword	p. vii
  Preface	p. xv
  Author's Note	p. xix
  Illustrations	p. xxiii
  Maps	p. xxiv
  A Funeral	p. 1
  Plans
  "Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with his Sleeve"	p. 17
  The Shadow of Sedan	p. 28
  "A Single British Soldier ..."	p. 44
  The Russian Steam Roller	p. 56
  Outbreak
  Outbreak	p. 71
  August 1: Berlin	p. 73
  August 1: Paris and London	p. 84
  Ultimatum in Brussels	p. 98
  "Home Before the Leaves Fall"	p. 112
  Battle
  "Goeben ... An Enemy Then Flying"	p. 137
  Liege and Alsace	p. 163
  BEF to the Continent	p. 194
  Sambre et Meuse	p. 206
  Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons	p. 231
  "The Cossacks Are Coming!"	p. 263
  Tannenberg	p. 290
  The Flames of Louvain	p. 310
  Blue Water, Blockade, and the Great Neutral	p. 325
  Retreat	p. 341
  The Front Is Paris	p. 373
  Von Kluck's Turn	p. 395
  "Gentlemen, We Will Fight on the Marne"	p. 413
  Afterword	p. 435
  Sources	p. 441
  Notes	p. 457
  Index	p. 491
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기본정보

ISBN	9780345386236 ( 034538623X )
발행(출시)일자	1994년 03월 08일
쪽수	608쪽
크기	137 * 203 * 36 mm / 499 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어