November 11, 1918. With the end of the great war in sight and the trenches packed with young men eager to avoid being the last to die. Vainglorious and vengeful allied generals ordered their troops to press on against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties. Here bestselling author, Joseph E. Persico, re-creates one of the most tragic days in human history by following ordinary soldier’s lives and illuminating their fate as the end approached.
The pointless fighting on November 11 is the perfect metaphor for the four years that proceeded it. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all the head led up to it - and then recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes the great tales of World War I, including all quiet on the Western front, Grand illusion, And path of glory. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict that one of its participants, Winston Churchill, called “the hardest, Cruelest and Least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.”
November 11, 1918. With the end of the great war in sight and the trenches packed with young men eager to avoid being the last to die. Vainglorious and vengeful allied generals ordered their troops to press on against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties. Here bestselling author, Joseph E. Persico, re-creates one of the most tragic days in human history by following ordinary soldier’s lives and illuminating their fate as the end approached.
The pointless fighting on November 11 is the perfect metaphor for the four years that proceeded it. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all the head led up to it - and then recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes the great tales of World War I, including all quiet on the Western front, Grand illusion, And path of glory. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict that one of its participants, Winston Churchill, called “the hardest, Cruelest and Least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.”
