The Guns of August
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Oct 17, 2026
Brandon WeichertHOST
She has two phenomenal books.
Brandon WeichertHOST
They are the definitive, in my opinion, books on World War I, which is, uh, the, the, The Proud Tower, and the, obviously The Guns of August.
Brandon WeichertHOST
Read Adam Tooze, who we should get on.
Brandon WeichertHOST
I'm a big fan of his.
Brandon WeichertHOST
She has two phenomenal books.
Brandon WeichertHOST
They are the definitive, in my opinion, books on World War I, which is, uh, the, the, The Proud Tower, and the, obviously The Guns of August.
Brandon WeichertHOST
Read Adam Tooze, who we should get on.
Brandon WeichertHOST
I'm a big fan of his.
Steve JermyGUEST
I don't know whether they will.
Steve JermyGUEST
I think probably not, but w- w- in terms of probability, the fact that they might or the fact that we might have some sort of Guns of August, which of course is Barbara Tuchman's, um, discussion of how, um, Europe fell into a war in 1914.
Steve JermyGUEST
Uh, and look at the consequences of that, and I think the consequences would be worse than 1914, Pascal, 'cause of the weapons that the Russians could deploy.
Pascal LottazHOST
Which is why it's so bizarre that, you know, at the moment when Europe and the United States combined lack the ability to produce the implements of war that would be needed in order to even have a chance at, uh, uh, at a war like that, that in that moment the rhetoric is still ra- being ratcheted up.
Keith HocktonHOST
There is actually a wonderfully reassuring version of the Cuban Missile Crisis that most of us grew up with.
Keith HocktonHOST
A young and remarkably composed President John F. Kennedy, armed in part with lessons that he'd actually drawn from Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, stares down the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a masterclass, absolute masterclass of calculated diplomacy.
Keith HocktonHOST
Two great powers approach the abyss.
Keith HocktonHOST
Cool heads thankfully prevail, Khrushchev backs down, and literally, civilization breathes again.
EthanHOST
... like Tannenbaum or something.
EthanHOST
Um, she, she has a more famous book about, called The Guns of August, but it's about the world right before World War I.
AlexHOST
I've read The Guns of August.
EthanHOST
Yeah.
EthanHOST
Yeah.
John RothmannHOST
I don't believe in scare tactics.
John RothmannHOST
I've never believed in scare tactics, but I'm pragmatic enough to understand That as Barbara Tuchman recounted in "The Guns of August," her book about the prelude to World War I, that an accident could happen.
John RothmannHOST
An irresponsible moment could occur, and we could see a nuclear conflagration.
John RothmannHOST
Let me remind you that Britain and France both have nuclear weapons, that there is now a real danger.
Mathew TurnerGUEST
Or where, you know, messages are misinterpreted and you suddenly find yourself at war.
Mathew TurnerGUEST
There's a really excellent book called, um, the guns of August.
Mathew TurnerGUEST
I don't know if you've heard of that.
Mathew TurnerGUEST
It's written in the 1960s.
Mark BoundHOST
There are so many, you know, nuances.
Mark BoundHOST
I would say, I would really recommend a book that I think all three of us had to read back in our doctoral time, uh, The Guns of October, or The Guns of August.
Scott GershwerPANELIST
Guns of August, yeah.
Mark BoundHOST
Guns of August, yeah.
Mark BoundHOST
Historians will always make a big deal out of something.
Mark BoundHOST
something.You have to look well underneath the, the surface to be able to find all of those different moving parts that contributed to the conflicts that you're looking at, and the conflicts that could possibly happen in the future.
Brooklyn Ann WeldonPANELIST
I also recommend, um, besides Barbara Tuchman's book, The Guns of August, um, I would also recommend, um, a, uh, documentary series called World War I Apocalypse, uh, which I found to be extremely, um...
Brooklyn Ann WeldonPANELIST
I found it on, on YouTube.
Mikael RosliGUEST
I think the thing that keeps me up at night is the idea that we're going to slip and fall and trip into this World War III scenario.
Mikael RosliGUEST
Because one of the books that I would recommend is The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman.
Mikael RosliGUEST
And it's actually a book that JF Kennedy loved and also was very concerned about.
Mikael RosliGUEST
Because what you learn from World War I is that a lot of things and plans, they have their own momentum.
Jack BeattyPANELIST
But the character of the president— He said to his ex-com, the committee, President Kennedy, that he put together, that he would be willing to accept a, quote, defeat, if you will, a back down in the crisis if it would stop a nuclear war.
Jack BeattyPANELIST
And he said, I've been reading Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August of how the great powers slid accidentally, unthinkingly into the cataclysm of World War I. I'm not going to do that.
Jack BeattyPANELIST
I'd be willing to accept, you know, I'd be willing to back down if I have to do it.
Jack BeattyPANELIST
And they all said, oh, the political consequences.
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