DNF @ 47%. Nope. Maybe it is this particular audiobook version, but I'm really not feeling the love for this book. With The Guns of August, Tuchman wrote this incredibly detailed account of the first month of WWI - and the detail is staggering, so much so that it might even be somewhat overwhel...
A very detailed, but nonetheless accessible, account of the first month of World War 1 that focuses on the military history of the main combatants. I was glad that I already had a reasonable understanding of the political situation that led to the outbreak of war as this is not the focus of the book...
While the ultimate outcome of The Great War was not decided in it's first month, the nature of the contest was as Barbara Tuchman so masterfully illustrates in "The Guns of August". From the outset Tuchman shows that all the belligerents made crucial mistakes that slowly mounted resulting the Alli...
I actually listened to the audiobook read by Naomi May, who was a great narrator. Unfortunately as interesting as the book subject was and as good as her narration was, I could not get into this book. History was never my best subject (that would be math), but I do remember bits and pieces about W...
bookshelves: summer-2013, tbr-busting-2013, published-1962, pulitzer, wwi, nonfiction, fraudio, history Read from July 22 to August 24, 2013 To crack open in August!Fraudo> Rosado> Read by Nadia MayNon-Fic> History> wwISummer 2013> tbr 2013PulitzerPub 1962I never did understand how France, on th...
To crack open in August!Fraudo> Rosado> Read by Nadia MayNon-Fic> History> wwISummer 2013> tbr 2013PulitzerPub 1962I never did understand how France, on the defensive, managed to capture Alsace' Lines like that is what makes Tuchman engaging and just right for my August epic non-fiction. The opening...
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI (2014), this Pulitzer Prize winning history deserves a re-read. Tuchman's writing grips the reader as a world marches, seemingly inexorably, to madness and war.World War I may seem like ancient history to some, but its echoes still resonate in...
Wow. Who'd have thought the first world war would be so fascinating! Barbara Tuchman is such a fabulous writer, she could make paint drying fascinating, so WWI must have been a breeze.
B. Tuchman's 1963 Pulitzer The Guns of August may not have invented the 'rewrite book,'* but it's as if she did. still being read today, Tuchman was not a professional historian but a skilled lyricist who composed an eminently readable examination of August 1914, and the gun battle that erupted in n...
Genia is practically giddy about it; Susanna gives it five stars, which is incredibly rare for her. I have Hochschild's newish WWI book on my schedule, but this is about the run-up rather than the war itself, so it should be a possibility.
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