The Telegraph tagged the twenty-three best war and history books of all time, including:
The Guns of August
Barbara W Tuchman (1962)
Tuchman was awarded the first of two Pulitzer Prizes for this superb analysis of how and why the European powers went to war in 1914, and what could have been done to stop them. Tuchman enlivens the complex issue to make the book as compulsive as any thriller.Read
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