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Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August’ Is Still WWI’s Peerless Chronicle

Vivid And Venerable

She never earned a Ph.D. or taught in a university history department. Barbara Tuchman called herself a writer whose subject was history. Whatever she was, there was no one better.

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