Armistice Day
opens new windowThe signing of the Armistice at Compiègne, France (pictured here) ended fighting between the Allies and Germany.
opens new windowRussia had withdrawn from the war in March, and previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
See the Tulsa World’s photographic feature, which ends by showing how Armistice Day became Veterans Day in the USA: opens new windowLooking back at World War I on the 100th anniversary of its end.
The Tulsa VFW is now home for an historic opens new windowTulsa World newspaper from Armistice Day.
Books and Ebooks
The Greatest Day in History by
World War I did not end neatly with the Germans' surrender. After a dramatic week of negotiations, military offensives, and the beginning of a Communist revolution, the German Imperial regime collapsed. The Allies eventually granted an armistice to a new German government, and at 11:00 on November 11, the guns officially ceased fire--but only after 11,000 more casualties had been sustained. The London Daily Express proclaimed it "the greatest day in history.” Nicholas Best tells the story in sweeping, cinematic style, following a set of key participants through the twists and turns of these climactic events, and sharing the impressions of eyewitnesses including Adolf Hitler, Charles de Gaulle, Harry S. Truman, Anthony Eden, and future famous generals MacArthur, Patton, and Montgomery.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781586486402Publication Date: 2008
The Silence of Memory by
This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on the public ceremonies on and around 11 November which dominated the public memory of the war in the inter-war years. This book aims to remedy the deficiency by showing the pre-eminence of Armistice Day, both in reflecting what people felt about the war and in shaping their memories of it. It shows that this memory was complex rather than simple and that it was continually contested. Finally it seeks to examine the impact of the Second World War on the memory of the First and to show how difficult it is to recapture the idealistic assumptions of a world that believed it had experienced 'the war to end all wars'.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780854969555Publication Date: 1994
The First World War: A Complete History by
"A stunning achievement of research and storytelling" that weaves together the major fronts of WWI into a single, sweeping narrative (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended: Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted in the First World War. The Great War left millions of civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. It also saw the creation of new technologies of destruction: tanks, planes, and submarines; machine guns and field artillery; poison gas and chemical warfare. It introduced U-boat packs and strategic bombing, unrestricted war on civilians and mistreatment of prisoners. But the war changed our world in far more fundamental ways than these. In its wake, empires toppled, monarchies fell, and whole populations lost their national identities. As political systems and geographic boundaries were realigned, the social order shifted seismically. Manners and cultural norms; literature and the arts; education and class distinctions; all underwent a vast sea change. As historian Martin Gilbert demonstrates in this "majestic opus" of historical synthesis, the twentieth century can be said to have been born on that fateful morning in June of 1914 (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780795337239Publication Date: 2014
World War I by
Primary documents from the World War I era bring to life the causes, events and consequences of those tumultuous and violent years. Varied perspectives provide a valuable overview of the many and often complicated reactions by Americans to Pre-war European politics, Archduke Ferdinand's assassination, the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine, the major battles fought, and of the eventual and controversial entry into the war by the United States, among others.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780313320828Publication Date: 2007
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References
Bleuet de France image. opens new windowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleuet_de_France
Remembrance Poppy image. opens new windowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_poppy
Signing of Armistice image. opens new windowhttp://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/armistice-ww1.htm
Yorkshire Telegraph & Star headline image. opens new windowhttps://www.mrallsophistory.com/revision/the-armistice-of-compiegne-and-the-end-of-ww1.html