The Guns of August

The Outbreak of World War I

by Barbara W. Tuchman

WInner of the Pulitzer Prize

Published February 1989
511 pages
A lucid examination of the critical moves of August, 1914—the carefully-planned strategies, first bloody clashes, and shocking realizations of prolonged battles. Tuchman delivers a very important landmark in our understanding of the First World War, focusing on how the war began.