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Joseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous–among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war’s last hour. Persico recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and Paths of Glory.
The pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called “the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.”
- Joseph E. Persico - Author
- Jonathan Marosz - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415953914
- File size: 492108 KB
- Release date: August 2, 2004
- Duration: 17:05:13
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415953914
- File size: 493099 KB
- Release date: August 2, 2004
- Duration: 17:05:13
- Number of parts: 14
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
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English