Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh HourBy: Joseph E. Persico 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. Why? Allied

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