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The greatest day in history : how, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the First World War finally came to an end / Nicholas Best.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Best, Nicholas, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Armistices.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Armistice Day.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Unlike 1945, the First World War did not end neatly with the unconditional surrender of the Germans. After a dramatic week of negotiations, military offensives and the beginning of a Communist revolution, the German Imperial regime collapsed. The Allies eventually granted an armistice to a new German government, and at eleventh hour on the 11th of November, the guns officially ceased fire, but only after 11,000 casualties had been sustainedalmost as many as on D-Day. Nicholas Best tells the story in sweeping, cinematic style, revealing that events were far from pre-ordained. From the generals' headquarters to the frontline trenches, from the factories to the farms, he reveals the twists and turns that led to the end of the Great War.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-74594-8
- 9786612745942
- 0-7867-2664-4
- OCLC:
- 646780491
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