Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” was released in January 1962. Historian Robert Massie, in the 1994 Foreword, states that “The Guns of August was an immediate, overwhelming success. Reviewers ...

THE GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)—Barbara W. Tuchman—Macmillan ($6.95). World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of ...

In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published her work, “The Guns of August.” In it, she described the 30 days in August of 1914, when Europe’s governments prodded their countries into a Great War.

“The Guns of August,” Barbara W. Tuchman’s landmark volume on the opening weeks of World War I, remains as relevant today as it was when the book first appeared in 1962. The war’s earliest battles ...

In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the origins of the First World War, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman wrote that prior to the war’s outbreak, “Europe was a heap of swords piled as ...

Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” is now considered out of date because of new scholarship about the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, but it was an influential book of its time. Among its avid ...

Tomorrow will mark the thirteenth day of what future historians might well dub the “Iranian nuclear missile crisis.” Set off by the overwhelming Israeli air campaign against Iran begun on June 13, the ...

The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great ...

THE PROUD TOWER by Barbara W. Tuchman. 528 pages. Macmillan. $7.95. November 1912. From the pulpit of the cathedral in Basle, France’s Jean Jaurès faced 555 fellow Socialists of 23 nations, gathered ...