The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended
‘This volume sets an example that will be hard to equal… Reading it is like looking into a photograph album full of vivid snaps of the world taken during a week of high tension, crisis, celebration, tragedy and illusion’Daily Mail ‘Scintillating… a miscellany of tragedy mixed with delight’Literary Review The Greatest Day in History charts
‘This volume sets an example that will be hard to equal… Reading it is like looking into a photograph album full of vivid snaps of the world taken during a week of high tension, crisis, celebration, tragedy and illusion’
Daily Mail
‘Scintillating… a miscellany of tragedy mixed with delight’
Literary Review
The Greatest Day in History charts the events leading up to Armistice Day 1918, the day the First World War finally came to an end. Everyone remembered where they were on 11 November 1918, from Marlene Dietrich in Berlin and Gandhi on his sick bed to Charles de Gaulle in a German prison camp.
Eamon de Valera was in Lincoln Gaol. The Kaiser was in Holland, fending off an assault by the British ambassador’s wife. Private Erich Maria Remarque was strutting about in an officer’s uniform. General Ludendorff was fleeing Berlin in dark glasses and a false beard.
As for Harry Truman, he was firing off the last of his ammunition before joining the celebrations on the front line…’This volume sets an example that will be hard to equal… Reading it is like looking into a photograph album full of vivid snaps of the world taken during a week of high tension, crisis, celebration, tragedy and illusion’
Daily Mail
‘Scintillating… a miscellany of tragedy mixed with delight’
Literary Review
The Greatest Day in History charts the events leading up to Armistice Day 1918, the day the First World War finally came to an end. Everyone remembered where they were on 11 November 1918, from Marlene Dietrich in Berlin and Gandhi on his sick bed to Charles de Gaulle in a German prison camp.
Eamon de Valera was in Lincoln Gaol. The Kaiser was in Holland, fending off an assault by the British ambassador’s wife. Private Erich Maria Remarque was strutting about in an officer’s uniform. General Ludendorff was fleeing Berlin in dark glasses and a false beard.
As for Harry Truman, he was firing off the last of his ammunition before joining the celebrations on the front line…
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Fresh and intriguing look at the last days of the Great War This is an intriguing book that gives a fresh and valuable perspective on the final days of the First World War. We see the unfolding military and political situation through the eyes of a series of individuals who lived through this last week, or in some cases died during it. They range from the generals to the front-line troops, from political leaders to anxious civilians caught up in the chaos. What emerges from their experiences and observations, deftly woven into a narrative by the…
Corrupt Politics and waste of lives. Interesting to know how famous names like Douglas Macarthur, Harry Truman, George Patton, Dwight Eisenhower, Siegfried Sassoon, Adolph Hitler just to mention a few spent the last days of the war.The ambitious policies of Foche and Clemenceau in the final hours of the war were corrupt and immoral.War is sad even when justified.
History at its Best Covering the seven days before the Armistice that ended the First World War on the 11th of November 1918, Nicholas Best in âThe Greatest Day in Historyâ brings us a moving account of many people who took part and how the rest of their lives unfolded. With these short biographical histories, it is a book you can dip into, but Bestâs compulsive style will almost certainly keep you glued to the pages.