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E:21/03 'The Greatest Day in History' by Nicholas Best
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http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/competitions/full_details/competition_341.php
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The History Channel is offering you the chance to win a copy of 'The Greatest Day in History', by Nicholas Best.
Armistice Day, 1918. In Boulogne, drunken Allied troops were raping the prostitutes. In Kansas, a mob of patriotic Americans was attempting to lynch a man who had refused to support the war. And in Berlin, General Erich Ludendorff was making his escape in dark glasses and a false beard, desperate to get away before his own people beat him to death for leading them to defeat.
This is the story of a momentous day, widely recognised at the time as the greatest in history, but it is also a snapshot of the whole world at the end of an extraordinary week. Everyone remembered where they were on 11 November 1918, from Marlene Dietrich in Berlin and Mahatma Gandhi on his sickbed, to Eamon de Valera in an English prison and the Kaiser in Holland, fending off an assault by the British ambassador’s wife. A glance at the contents page of Nicholas Best’s gripping new book reveals a host of intriguing characters not normally associated with the war, who all recalled exactly where they were and what they were doing when the clock struck eleven and they were able to lay down their burden at last on the final day of one of the most disastrous wars in history.
Some of the characters are well known, but many others have stories that are told here for the first time.
To enter this competition log in, register or fill in your details below:
In which month did the Battle of the Somme commence?
<input name="answer" value="May" type="radio"><label>May</label>
<input name="answer" value="June" type="radio"><label>June</label>
<label>July</label>
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
RRP: £20.00
The History Channel is offering you the chance to win a copy of 'The Greatest Day in History', by Nicholas Best.
Armistice Day, 1918. In Boulogne, drunken Allied troops were raping the prostitutes. In Kansas, a mob of patriotic Americans was attempting to lynch a man who had refused to support the war. And in Berlin, General Erich Ludendorff was making his escape in dark glasses and a false beard, desperate to get away before his own people beat him to death for leading them to defeat.
This is the story of a momentous day, widely recognised at the time as the greatest in history, but it is also a snapshot of the whole world at the end of an extraordinary week. Everyone remembered where they were on 11 November 1918, from Marlene Dietrich in Berlin and Mahatma Gandhi on his sickbed, to Eamon de Valera in an English prison and the Kaiser in Holland, fending off an assault by the British ambassador’s wife. A glance at the contents page of Nicholas Best’s gripping new book reveals a host of intriguing characters not normally associated with the war, who all recalled exactly where they were and what they were doing when the clock struck eleven and they were able to lay down their burden at last on the final day of one of the most disastrous wars in history.
Some of the characters are well known, but many others have stories that are told here for the first time.
To enter this competition log in, register or fill in your details below:
In which month did the Battle of the Somme commence?
<input name="answer" value="May" type="radio"><label>May</label>
<input name="answer" value="June" type="radio"><label>June</label>
<label>July</label>
[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]Any war that lasts for longer than five years should be declared a draw.[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]
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