Friday, March 06, 2009

 

THE GUNS OF AUGUST by Barbara W. Tuchman, read by Nadia May

In this history of the opening month of WWI, Tuchman creates caustic portrayals of kings, kaisers, and generalissimos with a keen eye and ear for detail and an instinct for the right quote and the right word. This masterpiece of historical reconstruction gets a narrator who comprehends in full its enormous narrative power.



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