Milestones to Peace: the Armistice of Compiègne

The guns fell silent on the Western Front on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, heralding an end to the war after four long years of bitter fighting. The Armistice with Germany was signed at 05:00 in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne, about 70 kilometres north […] https://ift.tt/2DcLVud James Cronan November 09, 2018 at 07:41AM