{"id":41184,"date":"2014-02-24T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/book-review-the-guns-of-august-by-barbara-tuchman-1962.html"},"modified":"2014-02-24T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T00:37:07","slug":"book-review-the-guns-of-august-by-barbara-tuchman-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/book-review-the-guns-of-august-by-barbara-tuchman-1962.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman (1962)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five stars. An amazing telling of the first month (give or take) of the First World War, and the egos and blunders that led to the meat grinder of the next four years.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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a review of The Guns of August<\/a>
\n (Argh. Managed to lose a lengthy review I was almost done writing. Stupid, stupid Goodreads review editor … So, in summary …)<\/p>\n

Tuchman does an understandably-Pulitzer-Priz…\n <\/p>\n

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Five stars. An amazing telling of the first month (give or take) of the First World War, and the egos and blunders that led to the meat grinder of the next four years.\ufeff a review of The Guns of August (Argh. Managed to lose a lengthy review I was almost done writing. Stupid, stupid Goodreads … Continue reading “Book Review: "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman (1962)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24198,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/on-the-presumption-that-these-are-not-all-terrorists-which-i-presume-because.html","url_meta":{"origin":41184,"position":0},"title":"On the presumption that these are not all terrorists —- which I presume because…","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Dec-11 11:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"On the presumption that these are not all terrorists -- -- which I presume because that would probably catch some headlines -- then these people are idiots. 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