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Rockmaple - Very interesting article. Thanks for the link which I sent to my brother as well as the Q & A. He is retired military and his second career is military-related. It will be interesting to find out if he ever read the book. I guess that I am not one of "the majority of the generation that lived through it, and subsequent generations, never became emotionally engaged with its potential consequences." I have never forgetten that time and what could have happened. I was 11 years old and many in our extended family had gathered at my one uncle's. I remember standing in his dining room and asking if we were going to have a war. Instead of getting the reassurance of No that I had hoped for, he said, "I don't know." I saw the fear in the eyes of all of the adults - not something I had seen before.
That article make me think of how some people scoff at what they call 'revisionist history.' Is it really revisionist history when new solid information comes to light and history is rewritten to reflect that info?
As far as your question, let me put my answer this way. I know which one of the front runners is most likely not to stay cool!
Sigmapsidelta - Good thinking re: non-fiction. Guns of August it is!
The focus of the book is to provide the history of World War I from the declaration of war through the start of the Franco-British offensive that stopped the German advance through France. In addition, the book provides a brief history of the plans, strategies, world events and international sentiments prior to and during the war.
The Pulitzer Prize nomination committee was unable to award it the prize for outstanding history because Joseph Pulitzer's will specifically stated that the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for history must be a book on American history. Instead, Tuchman was given the prize for general non-fiction.
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