The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War really ended - Softcover
'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...
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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About the Author:
Nicholas Best is a former literary critic for the Financial Times. He has written more than 20 books, both fiction and non-fiction, and is translated into many languages. For more information, see www.nicholasbest.co.uk.
From Publishers Weekly:
Historian and novelist Best, former fiction critic for the Financial Times, offers a sophisticated presentation of the effects of the Great War's final week on its military and civilian participants. Day by day, he presents firsthand accounts from a spectrum of familiar and unfamiliar sources. On November 5, 1918, Scots Guards Pvt. Stephen Graham took part in an attack with an elite British division, while American artillery Capt. Harry Truman picked flowers to send his fiancée and contemplated running for Congress when—and if—he got home. On November 8, Evelyn Blücher, an Englishwoman married to a German prince, feared an outbreak of riots or revolution in Germany. And on November 11, Armistice Day, a crowd of Australians celebrated by storming Boulogne's red light district to the battle cry of let's fuck 'em free! What might have been merely a kaleidoscopic series of vignettes is given shape and focus by Best's skill at paraphrasing the narratives and synergizing the experiences of those who lived through the greatest day in history, knowing they had survived the deadliest war up to then—and suddenly asking, What happens now? 16 pages of b&w photos. (Nov.)
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- PublisherThistle Publishing
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1910198714
- ISBN 13 9781910198711
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages470
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