WW1 ARMISTICE - THE END GAME OF WORLD WAR ONE - AS SEEN ON IN SOUTH AFRICA

Product Description Professor David Reynolds takes a fresh look at the extraordinary eventsand personalities involved in the Armistice which brought the FirstWorld war to an end in 1918. He uncovers a story of wounded egos,political scheming and brinkmanship behind the lines as statesmen andgenerals haggled over the terms of peace while, at the front, thesoldiers fought on as the cost of human life escalated. In a journeythat takes him through command centres and battlefields, he exploreswhy half a million men were killed or wounded in the bitter endgame ofthe 'Great War' and he unravels how Germany ultimately plunged to totaldefeat. In March 1918 the Germans nearly won the war; in November theynot only lost it, their country also fell apart in revolution, leavingthem unable to resist the Allies' harsh terms. So, for many Germans,the new order was a betrayal of all they had fought for a lastingresentment that would eventually fuel Adolf Hitler s rise to power. Theevents that led up to the Armistice are vividly told in thisfascinating programme explaining exactly how Germany lost the war.November 11th proved to be a doomed peace - a prelude to a century-longstruggle for mastery of Europe. David Reynolds argues that it was thefrenetic politicking and brutality of the fighting in 1918 that sowedthe seeds of the even bloodier Second World War just 20 years later.