TUCHMAN, Barbara W.

August 1914. [The Guns of August].

First Edition of the Classic The Guns of August; Signed by Barbara Tuchman

London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1962.

$4,500.00

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First British edition of Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of the opening episodes of World War I. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barbara Tuchman opposite the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

“More dramatic 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). An immediate bestseller, Tuchman’s celebrated history of World War I won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. It also served as the basis for the critically acclaimed 1964 documentary compiled from archival footage by Nathan Kroll. Listed by Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.