A fresh look at the Armistice of 1918
Professor David Reynolds
uncovers a story of wounded egos, political scheming and strategy behind the
lines as statesmen and generals haggled over the terms of peace, while the
soldiers fought on the front-line.
In a journey that takes
him through command centers and battlefields, he explores why half-a-million
men were killed or wounded in the bitter endgame of the ‘Great War’ and unravels
how Germany ultimately plunged to total defeat. November 11th proved to be a
doomed peace, a prelude to a century-long struggle for mastery of Europe. David
Reynolds argues that it was the frenetic politicking and brutality of the
fighting in 1918 that sowed the seeds of the even bloodier Second World War
just 20 years later.
