the lessons of the failed armistice of 1918
Tens of thousands of German and Austrian soldiers were freed to redeploy to Western Front and finish off French and British armies.. ..…
in the final hours of world war i, a terrible toll
He was Saskatchewan when the swirl of history plucked him off October 1917 as Allies sought ever more manpower for Western Front.. By that time, Canadians were retaking Mons southern Belgium, where soldiers from British Commonwealth had their very first battle with Germans August 1914.. ..…
the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month—100 years ago –
Tens of thousands of German and Austrian soldiers were freed to redeploy to Western Front and finish off French and British armies.. ..…
in the last hours of world war i, a terrible toll
He was Saskatchewan when the swirl of history plucked him off October 1917 as Allies sought ever more manpower for Western Front... By that time, Canadians were retaking Mons southern Belgium, where soldiers from British Commonwealth had their very first battle with Germans August..…
the unremembered war
Soldiers like him, from remote villages that took days to reach on foot, had never been out of India and now suddenly found themselves in the trenches of the Western Front thousands of kilometres away in a world beyond their imagination. They possibly saved the British Empire. . As many as..…
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