Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour : Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax
Book |
Random House,
New York :
c2004.
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About
Re-creates November 11, 1918, the final day of World War I, when Allied military commanders in search of glory and advancement flung men against an already beaten enemy, leading to eleven thousand casualties.
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- ISBN: 9780375508257 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0375508252 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xix, 456 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.print
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2004.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-433) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: The desperate hours -- The boy who blew up the world -- "A lovely war" -- 'Goya at his most Macabre" -- Upon a midnight clear -- "The God who gave the cannon gave the cross" -- The three musketeers -- A scar from Belgium to Switzerland -- Every inch a soldier -- "They shall not pass" -- "What did you do in the great war, Dad?" -- "Tomorrow I shall take my men over the top" -- "Hindenburg! The name itself is massive" -- "Keeping the world safe for democracy" -- "Acts prejudicial to military discipline" -- Doughboys -- "Sweet and noble to die for one's country" -- "Over there" -- "If this is our country, then this is our war" -- Ludendorff's grand gamble -- "A German bullet is cleaner that a whore" -- Baptism in Cantigny -- "Do you want to live forever?" -- "I don't expect to see any of you again" -- "Do you wish to take part in this battle?" -- A civilized end to pointless slaughter -- A plague in the trenches -- "Victims who will die in vain" -- "We knew the end could not be far off" -- "Pass the word. Cease fire at eleven!" -- "Little short of murder" -- The fate of Private Gunther -- "This fateful morning came an end to all wars" -- Greater losses than on D-Day -- "Only the dead have seen the end of war.".