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The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Pulitzer Prize · 1963 · Winner
NonfictionISBN 9788490061626

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction1963Winner

About the Author

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1912-1989) was an acclaimed American historian and author renowned for her narrative popular histories, winning two Pulitzer Prizes for The Guns of August (1962), detailing the outset of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell; other notable works include A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly.

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