The guns of august - august 1914

In opening her account of the outbreak of the Great War, Tuchman chooses to go back to May 1910 and the state funeral of Edward VII. Her carefully crafted opening sentences establish the tone for the remainder of her book and what is one of its undoubted strengths, the quality of Tuchman’s prose... v angličtine, brožovaná, menší formát, 575 strán