Reader recommendation: The Guns of August

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

I'm reading Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August because of the upcoming 100th anniversary of World War I. My son-in-law has just read it and I am re-reading it again with great pleasure. I am also recommending it to other family members and friends. 

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