WWI

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month—100 years ago by Victor Davis Hanson

https://amgreatness.com/2018/11/08/the-11th-hour-of-the-11th-day-of-the-11th-month-100-years-ago/

Excerpt: Nonetheless, World War I strangely ended with an armistice—with German troops still well inside France and Belgium. Revolution was brewing in German cities back home. The three major Allied victors squabbled over peace terms. America’s idealist president, Woodrow Wilson, opposed an Allied invasion of German and Austria to occupy both countries and enforce their surrenders. By the time the formal Versailles Peace Conference began in January 1919, millions of soldiers had gone home. German politicians and veterans were already blaming their capitulation on “stab-in-the-back” traitors and spreading the lie that their armies lost only because they ran out of supplies while on the verge of victory in enemy territory