Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches and while most Americans blamed

and while most Americans blamed the Germans

"It is impossible to realize the depth a man will sink to endeavor to appease the terrible horror of thirst

This book traces that work’s shifting fortunes during its unlikely journey from Great War Paris to cold war Kansas City and examines the continuing journeys of its fragments in the world’s art markets

Andrew Robertshaw & Steve Roberts

groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I―conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches and while most Americans blamedDescription by Joseph E. Persico Paperback 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 sufferedmore than during the D Day invasion of Normandy.