At the Eleventh Hour: Reflections, Hopes and Anxieties at the Closing of the Great War, 1918

Peter Liddle; Hugh Cecil

ISBN 10: 0850526094 / ISBN 13: 9780850526097

Published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Uk, 1998

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When the Great War of 1914 - 1918 was over, the reaction of the belligerent countries ranged from hope and joy to despair and anxiety, from a sense of release to anger, or bewilderment. The authors demonstrates the complexity of national attitudes towards the war and brings home, tragically, the fragile and illusory nature of the peace that dawned in the autumn of 1918. A good, tight clean copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: At the Eleventh Hour: Reflections, Hopes and Anxieties at the Closing of the Great War, 1918
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Uk
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850526094
• ISBN 13: 9780850526097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Following on from the highly acclaimed Facing Armageddon and Passchendaele in Perspective, At the Eleventh Hour recognises that a world was ending in November 1918, and by international collaboration on the 80th Anniversary we learn through this book, what it was like to experience the transition from war to peace. Distinguished historians brilliantly convey a sense of immediacy as the Armistice is recreated and analysed.The reader will not just acquire new areas of information, he will have some of the existing knowledge which he thought was soundly held, strikingly challenged in the pages of this superbly illustrated book.

Synopsis

At the Eleventh Hour describes the sudden an d enormous changes wrought by the signing of the armistice i n November 1918. The historians who contributed to this stud y challenge many of the ideas that have, until recently, bee n regarded as factual. '