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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: The War to End All Wars and Its Violent End

Door Joseph E. Persico

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#328199-XE13
Titel	Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: The War to End All Wars and Its Violent End
Auteur	Persico, Joseph E.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Hutchinson
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0091795036
ISBN13	9780091795030
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This is the story of the day on which World War I, the war to end all wars, ended. Using military archives and public records, along with journals and diaries, the book will weave together the eleventh hour experiences of the famous, such as Lloyd George, President Woodrow Wilson, Field Marshall Haig and General Pershing. But more dominantly, it will deal with the ordinary men in the trenches, unsung and unremembered, the British Tommies, French Poilus, American Doughboys and German Feldgrau. Where, for example, was the Austrian corporal, Adolf Hitler, on that day? Four days before the War's end, with peace talks already underway, the beaten Germans propose an interim ceasefire to spare lives. However, the French Allied Commander, General Ferdinand Foch, refuses. Hostilities will not cea... (Lees verder)se, Foch insists, before the appointed hour of the Armistice. Thus, even on the last day, the Allies are still launching full scale offenses and both sides bombard each other until the final minute of the agreed ceasefire, 11am, November 11, 1918. The last hours pulsate with tension as men in the trenches, airmen in the sky and sailors at sea hope to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in the War.
Pagina's	456
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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