A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War, November 1918 0525243461, 9780525243465
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 will live in history as a great moment--the hour the
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Contents
Prologue: Endings
The Dining Car in the Forest
Armistice Eve
Imperial Sunset
The Signing
Last Shots
The Stillness
A Joyful Noise
Having A Knees-Up
The Real Thing
Aftermath: The Front Lines
Prisoners of War
The Other Fronts
Behind the Rhine
Epilogue: A Beer Hall in Munich
Sources and Acknowledgments
PROLOGUE: ENDINGS
THE FALSE ARMISTICE
ARMISTICE EVE
IMPERIAL SUNSET
THE SIGNING
LAST SHOTS
THE STILLNESS
HAVING A KNEES-UP
THE REAL THING
PRISONERS OF WAR
THE OTHER FRONTS
BEHIND THE RHINE
Index
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A STILLNESS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
OTHER BOOKS BY STANLEY WEINTRAUB
Private Shaw and Public Shaw The War in the Wards Journey to Heartbreak The Last Great Cause Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse Whistler Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography The London Yankees
A STIII NF SS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD The End of the GreatWar: November 1918
STANLEY WEINTRAUB
(TT) TRUMAN TALLEY BOOKS / E. R DUTTON / NEW YORK
“How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm” copyright © 1919 by Mills Music, Inc. Copyright renewed. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright © 1985 by Stanley Weintraub All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.
Published in the United States by Truman Talley Books • E. P. Dutton, 2 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Weintraub, Stanley, 1929A stillness heard round the world. “A Truman Talley Book. " Bibliography: p. 1. World War, 1914-1918—Armistices. D641.W36 1985 940.4'39
I. Title. 85-6775
ISBN: 0-525-24346-1 Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto
Designed by Mark O'Connor
COBE 10
987654321 First Edition
In memory of Ewart Garland, who flew over Flanders on the final day, and for the thousand others who shared their memories with me
CONTENTS --------- --------------------------------
PROLOGUE:
ENDINGS
i
11
THE FALSE ARMISTICE
THE DINING CAR IN THE FOREST
67
ARMISTICE EVE
IMPERIAL SUNSET
115
THE SIGNING
147
LAST SHOTS
167
THE STILLNESS
191
A JOYFUL NOISE
227
HAVING A KNEES-UP
THE REAL THING
249 289
AFTERMATH: THE FRONT LINES PRISONERS OF WAR vii
41
331
313
viii
CONTENTS
THE OTHER FRONTS BEHIND THE RHINE
355
377
epilogue: A BEER HALL IN MUNICH
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
423
SOURCE NOTES
INDEX
455
INSERT OF ILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOWS PAGE 180
407 419
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