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 - Couverture rigide

Best, Nicholas

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ISBN 10 : 1586486403 ISBN 13 : 9781586486402

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2008

Synopsis

World War I did not end neatly with the Germans' surrender. 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 11:00 on November 11, the guns officially ceased fire—but only after 11,000 more casualties had been sustained. The London Daily Express proclaimed it “the greatest day in history.”

Nicholas Best tells the story in sweeping, cinematic style, following a set of key participants through the twists and turns of these climactic events, and sharing the impressions of eyewitnesses including Adolf Hitler, Charles de Gaulle, Harry S. Truman, Anthony Eden, and future famous generals MacArthur, Patton, and Montgomery.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nicholas Best grew up in Kenya and was educated there, in England, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served in the Grenadier Guards and worked in London as a journalist before becoming a fulltime author. His many other books include Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya, Tennis and the Masai, and the widely praised Trafalgar. Best was the Financial Times's fiction critic for ten years. He lives in Cambridge, England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586486403
• ISBN 13: 9781586486402
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible