Books by Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American author and historian. Following her graduation from Radcliffe College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1933, she spent some time abroad living in Japan and in Spain. Later in life, she received several honorary degrees for her work as a historian, including from Yale and Harvard. “The Guns of August,” her most famous work, won the Pulitzer Prize twice.

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The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Guns of August,” Barbara Tuchman paints a vivid and detailed picture of the first chaotic month of World War I in August 1914. Providing a detailed analysis of the characters and events leading up to the war and beyond, Tuchman also illustrates what it must have been like to live through this time.

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