Guns_Of_August

Guns Of August The Guns of August BOOK SUMMARY In May of 1910, the funeral of Edward VII of England took place. There were many royals in attendance there, including Kaiser William II of Germany, who disliked his uncle Edward and accused him of the encirclement of Germany. Edwards sociability resulted in reconciliation with France and a new friendship with Germany. Both arose the displeasure of William, who tried to rectify his situation with Russia and get them away from France although this failed. Soon thereafter, several publications on the prediction of a coming war were made public. Edwards magnificent funeral had the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last. This was also to be the state of things prior to the first World War. PLANS Germany, France, Britain, and Russia were all prepared to make war, which was almost inevitable. Each country formulated secret military strategies that were to be used during this great war. Germanys plan of attack was the original idea of Count Alfred von Schlieffen. He, not wanting to fight a two-front war, decided to attack France first, swiftly by way of Belgium and attacking from the rear thus bringing about Frances envelopment. war, people, one, style, guns, book, being, august, writing, reading, reader, without, tuchman, should, read, made, fault, difficult, descriptions, been, battle, although, agree, though, plans, information, historical, helped, given, german, further, events, even, during, confusing, army