In the canon
The Guns of August
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1962
- Pages
- Pages 610
The first month of the First World War day by day: the funeral where the kings still rode together, the plans drawn up years before, the generals who followed them into ruin, until the advance stalls at the Marne and the trenches begin.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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