Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the opening of World War I beautifully reissued and repackaged with The Proud Tower and The Zimmerman Telegram as a Modern Library set: Barbara Tuchman's Great War.

Originally published 1962 ; preface ©1988 ; foreword ©1994 ; maps ©2014. Military Reading List: Army 2017. The U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List 2017 Includes maps of: Western Front; Mediterranean; Assault on Liege; Battle of the Frontiers, August 20-23; Battle of Gumbinnen and Transfer of the Eighth Army; Battle of Tannenberg, August 25-30; Retreat, August 25-September 1; Von Kluck's Turn; Eve of the Marne, September 5; Eastern Front. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1962. With new foreword. Donated by the family of Lieutenant Colonel Loyal (Red) Mumford Pease (February 19, 1917 to April 15, 2011) who served as an officer in the 25th Company Bomb Disposal Squad in the United States Army during WWII.

A funeral -- Plans : "Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" ; The shadow of Sedan ; "A single British soldier" ; The Russian steam roller -- Outbreak : August I: Berlin ; August I: Paris and London ; Ultimatum in Brussels ; "Home before the leaves fall" -- Battle : "Goeben ... an enemy then flying" ; Liége and Alsace ; BEF to the continent ; Sanbre et Meuse ; Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons ; "The Cossacks are coming!" ; Tannenberg ; The flames of Louvain ; Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral ; Retreat ; The front is Paris ; Von Kluck's turn ; "Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne."