At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War, the War to End

All Wars, came to an end.

In the preceding four and a half years and four months, the world saw the greatest bloodletting in history up until that point.

Even after the announcement of the armistist, the war continued for several hours.

During that brief window, thousands of soldiers died.

One in particular died in the very last minute of the war.

Learn more about Sergeant Henry Gunther,

the last soldier to die in World War I

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

My audio book recommendation today is The Guns of August by Barbara tuckman.

In this Pulitzer Prize winning classic, is The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman.

In this Pulitzer Prize winning classic, historian Barbara Tuckman brings to life the people and

events that led up to World War I.

This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age of Kings and Caesars and Zars, of pointed or plooned hats, colored uniforms,

and all the pomp and romance that went along with war.

How quickly it all changed and how horrible it became.

Tuckman masterfully portrays this transition from the 19th to 20th century

focusing on the turning point of the year 1914,

the month

of the war.

With fine attention to detail, she reveals how and why the war started

and why it could have been stopped but wasn't,

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