Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches subject only to speculation and

subject only to speculation and theory

"It is impossible to realize the depth a man will sink to endeavor to appease the terrible horror of thirst

from the Western Front to the Eastern

Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research

and while most Americans blamed the Germans

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour Patches subject only to speculation andDescription 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.