Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918Description by Guy Cuthbertson Hardcover A vivid, original, and intimate hour by hour account of Armistice Day 1918, to mark its centenary this year November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy are much discussed, this is the first book to focus solely on the day itself, examining how the people of Britain, and the wider world, reacted to

It will be called the war to end all wars

from jolting ambulance to crowded operating tent

through the provocations and manipulations that drew us into the fight

It is from this edition that he created the abridged version in 1927 which would become a best-seller

this book asks the reader to look again and remember the dead

) to its brilliantly subversive column Things We Want to Know (the name of the officer who originated the idea)

arms and airplanes from where they were needed most at the Front

He paints a fresh portrait of the run-up to the Marne and puts in dazzling relief the Battle of the Marne itself: the French resolve to win

There was a distinct character to those who enlisted in the earliest months and who were destined to fight on Gallipoli

Serbia paid for her victory in the Great War in a disproportionately exorbitant manner: it is estimated that she lost close to one million inhabitants

Vast in scope

a shortage of Australian gunners saw British Territorial artillery allotted to the Australian Light Horse and New Zealand Mounted Rifle brigades