Tuchman Barbara W. The Guns of August

Ballantine Books, 2009. — 608 p. — eISBN: 978-0-307-56762-8.
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era.
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages.
Foreword.

Illustrations.
Maps.
A Funeral.
Plans.
“Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with His Sleeve”.
The Shadow of Sedan.
“A Single British Soldier …”.
The Russian Steam Roller.
Outbreak.
August 1: Berlin.
August 1: Paris and London.
Ultimatum in Brussels.
“Home Before the Leaves Fall”.
Battle.
“Goeben … An Enemy Then Flying”.
Liège and Alsace.
BEF to the Continent.
Sambre et Meuse.
Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons.
“The Cossacks Are Coming!”.
Tannenberg.
The Flames of Louvain.
Blue Water, Blockade, and the Great Neutral.
Retreat.
The Front Is Paris.
Von Kluck’s Turn.
“Gentlemen, We Will Fight on the Marne”.
Afterword.
Sources.

Copyright.