The Guns of August
The best-known introduction to Tuchman’s narrative historical style and a self-contained account of the opening of World War I.
Author guide
Barbara W. Tuchman Books in Order
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist, and author whose accessible narrative histories brought major episodes from medieval and modern history to a broad readership. Her books include studies of Anglo-Palestinian history, World War I, U.S.-China relations, the fourteenth century, and the American Revolution. She won Pulitzer Prizes for The Guns of August and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45.
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Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A compelling standalone biography and social history of the fourteenth century.
The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
A readable standalone history of the American Revolution and Tuchman’s final major book.
Read in order
Books by series
trilogy · complete
Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
A publisher-designated series of Tuchman's connected histories of the years surrounding World War I.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (4)
- The Lost British Policy: Britain and Spain Since 1700Amazon ↗
nonfiction · 1938
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to BalfourAmazon ↗nonfiction · 1956
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The March of Folly: From Troy to VietnamAmazon ↗nonfiction · 1984
- The First Salute: A View of the American RevolutionAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1988
