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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Armistice Day, 1918: World War I and Its Violent Climax

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ISBN-10: 0375508252

ISBN-13: 9780375508257

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph E. Persico

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November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. Joseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous–among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Was a contributing writer for Colin Powell's My American Journey. He also wrote Piercing the Reich, which is about the penetration of Nazi Germany by American Agents, and Nuremburg, which was made into a major television docudrama.