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Originally published in the United States of America by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
This edition published in the United States of America by Random House Trade Paperbacks 2014
First published in Great Britain as an electronic edition in Penguin Books 2014
Copyright © Barbara W. Tuchman, 1958, 1966
Copyright renewed © Barbara W. Tuchman, 1986
Copyright renewed © Dr Lester Tuchman, 1994
Cover design: Estuary English
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ISBN: 978-0-241-96827-7