The Guns of August
#586 of 3,809 books · #216 in History
Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1963).
The drama of August, 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed, and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- ISBN-13
- 9780786165759
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(1963)
Other awarded books from Barbara W. Tuchman
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (2017)1 win · 16 score
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945 (2017)1 win · 12 score
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