{"product_id":"2026100011412-secondhand-the-coming-of-the-great-war","title":"The Coming Of The Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Slipcase: Worn\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1914, the great empires of Europe stumbled into a catastrophe of their own making — and Barbara W. Tuchman's magisterial account of that fateful descent remains one of the most compelling works of narrative history ever written. Drawing on a vast array of diplomatic dispatches, military records, and personal memoirs, The Guns of August — of which The Coming of the Great War forms a crucial part — reconstructs the precise chain of miscalculations, nationalist fervour, and imperial hubris that transformed a single assassination in Sarajevo into a continent-wide conflagration, engulfing generations in its fire.\n\nTuchman writes with the precision of a scholar and the narrative drive of a master storyteller, humanising the statesmen, generals, and monarchs whose decisions sealed the fate of millions. Her prose is urgent and authoritative, illuminating the tragic irony at the heart of the conflict: that a war no one truly wanted was made inevitable by the very systems of alliance and honour designed to prevent it. A Pulitzer Prize-winning work of enduring relevance, this volume leaves the reader haunted by the question of whether the catastrophe could ever have been avoided.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572618399963,"sku":"2026100011412-SECONDHAND","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6b2acb6f-65b0-4f13-928f-82aec159f631.png?v=1791166981","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011412-secondhand-the-coming-of-the-great-war","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}