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The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman, 1962
Long read, about 511 pagesPulitzer Prize, 1963.
The first month of the First World War, and how leaders blundered into it.
Talk about it
- Which decision in that first month do you think mattered most?
- Was the war a blunder that could have been avoided, or did it feel unavoidable as you read?
- What does the book say about how leaders behave when plans meet reality?
Questions we wrote from what the book covers. They don’t give away the plot. How we pick. For more, try our questions for any book.