August 1914

  • August 1914
    By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Numerous side plots involving other characters, both on the battlefield and elsewhere, fill out this great historical novel. The unprepared army's failures mirror those of the Tsarist regime.

  • August 1914
    By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡syn

    A historical novel about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia.

  • August 1914
    By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡syn

    Against a brilliantly evoked backcloth of Russian society, this novel follows the army as it advances into East Prussia to face catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Germans.

  • August 1914
    By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    ‘One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world’ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear.

  • August 1914
    By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    August 1914

  • August 1914
    By Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

    This book is centered on the first month of World War I. Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict.

  • August 1914
    By Barbara W. Tuchman

    August 1914