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The Guns of August & The Proud Tower

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Library of America. 2012. 1264p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781598531459. $45.

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This best-selling 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner is still considered a standard by many teachers and praised for its narrative drive, although there's scant attention to the eastern front and Balkans. With an introduction by Margaret MacMillan for the Library of America, it still belongs on shelves.

Reviewed by Edwin B. Burgess, Margaret Heilbrun , Nov 01, 2013

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