It is not too much to say that the first thirty days of battle determined the future course of the First World War, the terms of the peace and the shape of the nations of our time. Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed study of the insane, uncontrollable plunge into war and the bloody catalogue of the battles of August 1914 stands as one of the classics of historical writing.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.
