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"More dramtatic 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... read more
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Summary
Droll and erudite Pulitzer Prize winning account of the first month of the first World War.
Memorable Quotes
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“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England”
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“The last-named, Prince Danilo, ‘an amiable, extremely handsome young man of delightful manners’, resembled the Merry Widow’s lover in more than name for, to the consternation of British functionaries, he had arrived for the funeral the night before accompanied by a ‘charming young lady of great personal attractions’ whom he introduced as his wife’s lady-in-waiting, come to London to do some shopping.”
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“with that marvelous incapacity to admit error that was ultimately to make him a Field-Marshal””
First Sentence
SO GORGEOUS WAS THE SPECTACLE ON THE MAY morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration.
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- Barbara Tuchman (Author)
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