Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August [2014] paperback Condition:New she just thinks he has

she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home

Winner of Costa First Novel Award

While Billy is obviously mentally distressed

Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive

Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August [2014] paperback Condition:New she just thinks he hasBarbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . . Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account of the