Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.

• War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the * classic account of the conflict's opening. From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, Tuchman shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum.