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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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  • Title 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
  • Author Nicholas Best
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Publication date 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781586486402 / 1586486403
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.32 x 1.13 in (23.88 x 16.05 x 2.87 cm)
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Armistices, Armistice Day
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008926373
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.439

About the author

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.
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