L' ultima alba di guerra

In my opinion it is a good book. It's a short read, but very inspiring. Inspiring in its negative meaning. I'm Polish and in Poland many people tend to forget about The Great War, focusing more on WWII. It is completely natural due to the fact that Poland and its people suffered more in it (ghettos, Leggi tutto

“Het lijkt of hij diep, heel diep onder water is en langzaam, heel langzaam naar de oppervlakte drijft. Precies op het moment dat hij zijn ogen opendoet, neemt Jim de deken van zijn gezicht.”

3.5 stars is about right - not a bad story, but lacked character depth and back story of those characters. Just wasn't quite right in the way the story came together. Not the authors best book...

This was a simple story about 3 young men in the last hours of WWI. The three are Axel, a young German soldier, Will, in the British infantry and equally young and Eddie, a US pilot and a veteran of nine months flying. These three characters are all very likeable with each not just trying to survive Leggi tutto

November 11, 1918, 5:00am. Old men, who get to decide these things, decide that World War I, “The Great War”, would end in six hours. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month; it had a nice sound to it. It gave the old men time to tell everyone and make sure everyone was on board. Leggi tutto

I really love reading about one of the most terrible periods in European history: the Great War. I’m particularly drawn to the psychological horror all those involved had to suffer for years on end. Whenever I watch a documentary or movie or read a book about the Great War, I always focus on how the Leggi tutto

What a nice little vignette of a book. It mainly takes place on the last day of the Great (First World) War, seen through the eyes of three of the combatants - two young soldiers, one English and one German, and an American airplane pilot (I don't think they distinguished between bombers and fighters Leggi tutto

This story follows three men: two soldiers and a pilot in WW1. A German, a Brit, and an American. The story is told from the three points of view in the 6 hours after the Armistice was signed and the bigwigs involved decided the war would end 6 hours later at 11am. 
What really got to me was the fact Leggi tutto

I liked the book because of the many different details. The whole outline was great because of what the story was telling. When they were in World War One, it stuck out that they didn't know the war was over. It was something new to me because I don't usually read war books. It was also different be Leggi tutto