While it opens with melancholy scenes of the crowned heads and autocrats of Europe gathered for the funeral of Edward VII of Great Britain in 1910 and goes on with shots of various rulers hobnobbing and beating their chests in the next four years, it does not give the eye or the imagination any more to excite a sense of a gathering storm than the words of the accompanying narration, which is turgid and hard to understand.Take this passage, for instance. Tuchman's book as it ticks off the incidents that led up to-and the early happenings of-World War I is the magnitude of the human folly and blunder that brought it on, the blindness of those who allowed it and the naïveté of those who became involved.There is little of this in the picture. And it certainly is a feeble documentation of that long-ago war at this late date.The awful and shattering realization that piles up in Mrs. It opened at the Beekman yesterday.Although it intends to be a worthy pictorial approximation of the book, and does, indeed, manage to recapture some of the look and horror of that hideous war, it fails to convey the essence of Mrs.
Tuchman's vivid history of the outbreak of World War I, "The Guns of August," Nathan Kroll and a group of associates have assembled a documentary film, which they call by that eloquent title. The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W.IMPELLED by the success of Barbara W. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation.
Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”-Newsweek Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W.
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