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The Guns of August (Tuchman)
Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer-winning account of the first month of World War I: the 1910 funeral of Edward VII, war plans like Schlieffen's, Belgium and Liège, Tannenberg, the retreat and the Marne, and why JFK read it during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Prereqs: World War I. Next: The Cold War (Gaddis); Schelling. Sources: Barbara Tuchman, *The Guns of August* (1962; Pulitzer 1963); Christopher Clark, *The Sleepwalkers* (2012); Extra History WWI series.Next: 1. The book