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Title: The Guns of August
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URL Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August
Published: Aug 18, 2008
Author: Barbara Tuchman
Post Date: 2008-08-18 15:52:07 by Rotara
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The Guns of August The Guns of August (1962) is a military history book written by Barbara Tuchman. It primarily describes the events of the first month of World War I. The focus of The Guns of August is to provide the history of World War I from the declaration of war through the start of the Franco-British offensive that stopped the German advance through France. In addition, the book provides a brief history of the plans, strategies, world events and international sentiments prior to and during the war. Poster Comment: Anyone read it?
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The Guns of August 
Author Barbara Tuchman Country United States Language English Genre(s) Military History, History Publisher Random House Publication date 1962 Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN ISBN 0-345-38623-X
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#1. To: Rotara (#0)
I did, and it was pretty good. WWI gets only a fraction of the coverage that WWII does, so it's a nice in-depth look at WTF people were thinking. You can probably find it used, locally.
TY! I'm off to get a copy now. ;-)
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The author is Jewish. I doubt that she will cover the most interesting aspects of WW I. You might consider the following: openingmind.blogs pot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html Insanity Then And Now Edith Cavell made a fatal mistake. She mistakenly believed she lived in a democracy. She was a British nurse working in Belgium in 1915. She saw first hand the horrors of trench warfare. She also saw a quick and easy means for England to end the war with a victory. She wrote a letter to the Nursing Mirror which was published on April 15th, 1915. She said that "Belgian Relief" efforts were actually being sent to Germany which would have to sue for peace without this aid from the allies. England was quite literally feeding the German army that was killing millions of French and English soldiers. What she did not know was that similar allied war materiel was being sent to Germany via Sweden and other neutral nations. If her advice had been followed, there never would have been any need for America to enter the war. The Kaiser could have stayed on the throne and Hitler could never have risen to power. And of course Russia would have become a constitutional monarchy led by the Social Democrats. We know the alternative. World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars and 60,000,000 killed in Soviet concentration camps. More than 500,000 young Russian girls were raped to death in the first three years of the revolution. And the NKVD admitted to killing 350,000 priests in the first two years of Soviet rule. That and the Battle of Verdun which killed 800,000 men would never have happened if Edith Cavell's plea had been heard by the British public. Her letter was read by Sir William Wiseman who was the head of British Intelligence in North America for MI6. He was a partner at the Rothschild owned Kuhn and Loeb Investment Bank. He ordered the Germans to arrest Edith Cavell. She was subsequently shot as a spy. Her mistake was to think that she lived in a democracy where the people could vote, write letters to the editor and have a say in the life and death decisions of the nation. She did not live to see what we have seen. We know that the same bankers who financed the allies also financed the Soviet Jewish revolution. And these same banks also financed Hitler. In 1935 the Rothschild owned Bank of England loaned the Nazi dictator the monetary equivalent of 50,000,000 ounces of gold. When Hitler remilitarized the Ruhr, the French wanted to put a stop to the Austrian upstart. They asked England for help. The Bank of England said that if the French did make any moves against Hitler, they would start a run on the French franc and would send France into an even more severe depression.
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Yes - its a start to a highly important topic. The parallels of Willie's German High Command arrogant bungling and the Bush administration are frankly shocking. The Bush administration has evidently learned NOTHING from recent history, as it appears the US Army has learned as well.
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