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The Day of The Armistice: 11 November 1918

The Day of The Armistice: 11 November 1918

Arden, Jd

Paperback

Series: Days That Made History

World War I

ISBN13: 9798264338250
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2025
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the eleventh hour on 11 November 1918 the guns along the Western Front fell silent-and for a few minutes a battered, exhausted world believed the war had ended. In a low railway carriage in a shadowed forest, generals and diplomats signed terms that stopped the killing and began to sort blame. This is a book about that quiet: the odd intimacy of negotiation in a mundane room, the sudden chorus of church bells and cheers, the way celebration walked hand in hand with mourning. Silence here is not a neat moral; it is a pause, humane and uneasy.

JD Arden follows the day and its immediate aftermath with scene-by-scene reportage and brisk cultural analysis-soldiers' awkward joy in the trenches, the bureaucratic scramble to demobilize, and the clauses and ceremonies that would feed future resentments. Clear-eyed and economical, the narrative treats 11 November as hinge and warning: a day that saved lives and still left Europe on a brittle waiting list for peace. Readable, sharp, and surprising, The Day of the Armistice makes you feel what silence did-and what it promised but could not yet deliver.

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