The Guns of AugustThe Guns of August is Barbara Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war, reissued for the 2014 Centenary. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is, to this day, revered as the