Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches the impulses that precipitated the

the impulses that precipitated the battle for Galicia in August 1914—and the unprecedented carnage that resulted—effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just six weeks into the war

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

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

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

Mayhew allows readers to peer over the shoulder of the stretcher bearer who jumped into a trench and tried unsuccessfully to get a tightly packed line of soldiers out of the way

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches the impulses that precipitated theDescription 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.