7 eur + portes de 2.60 eur (livro de 940 gramas, 2.60 envio editorial + .60 envelope almofadado)

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Barbara W. Tuchman – August 1914 (The Guns of August) - Constable, London, 1993, 499 páginas

Em língua Inglesa.

Hardcover

Como pode ver pelas fotos, a sobrecapa tem um rasgão na capa/lombada, fotos 1 e 2, e mais alguns sinais de uso/desgaste nos ângulos da sobrecapa (fotos 1 a 4)

Fora isso, livro em bom estado, sem sublinhados, notas ou assinaturas de posse.

Com cerca de 26 Ilustracções

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The Guns of August (published in the UK as August 1914) is a 1962 book centered on the first month of World War I written by Barbara W. Tuchman.

After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict.

The book's focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers.

The Guns of August provides a narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war up until the start of the Franco-British offensive that stopped the German advance into France.

The result was four years of trench warfare. In the course of her narrative Tuchman includes discussion of the plans, strategies, world events, and international sentiments before and during the war.

The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for publication year 1963, and proved very popular.

Tuchman later returned to the subject of the social attitudes and issues that existed before World War I in a collection of eight essays published in 1966 as The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890 to 1914.