Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches groundbreaking account of the ethnic

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

from the Western Front to the Eastern

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

subject only to speculation and theory

illuminating their fate as the end approaches

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches groundbreaking account of the ethnicDescription 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.