49.8°N 3.3°E Western Front Hundred Days Offensive & Armistice
Briefing
From 8 August 1918 — Germany's 'black day' — the Allied armies, stiffened by fresh American divisions and massed tanks, broke the Hindenburg Line and drove the German army into open retreat. With his front collapsing and revolution at home, the Kaiser abdicated and Germany signed the Armistice that silenced the guns at the eleventh hour of 11 November 1918.
Books Covering This Event (3)
Popular History
The First World War John Keegan · 1998
★ 4.5 Intermediate A single-volume military history of the entire war by the most influential military historian of the 20th century.
The Beauty and the Sorrow Peter Englund · 2011
★ 4.4 Intermediate An intimate history of the war told through the diaries and letters of twenty ordinary people on every front.
To End All Wars Adam Hochschild · 2011
★ 4.4 Accessible A history of the war in Britain told through both those who fought it and those who refused to.