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Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour, Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax, Joseph E. Persico

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Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour, Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax, Joseph E. Persico

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-433) and index

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platesmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

54462011

Responsibility statement

Joseph E. Persico

Sub title

Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax

Table Of Contents

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 solider -- "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."

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11th month, 11th day, 11th hour

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