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

and while most Americans blamed the Germans

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

from the Western Front to the Eastern

and riveting accounts of the difficulty of treating men in a war zone

Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research

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.