Title : "Battles went on for months, trapping the combatants in what historian Paul Fussell called a 'troglodyte world' of squalid trenches and endless artillery barrages."
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"Battles went on for months, trapping the combatants in what historian Paul Fussell called a 'troglodyte world' of squalid trenches and endless artillery barrages."
"In his book 'The Great War and Modern Memory,' Fussell calculated that there were 25,000 miles of trench lines on the Western Front, enough to encircle the earth. Between the trenches was the toxic, uninhabitable 'no man’s land,' infected with putrefying corpses, rats and chemical agents, and swept by machine-gun fire.... Some soldiers, called 'Neverendians,' thought the war would go on forever and become 'the permanent condition of mankind,' Fussell wrote, 'like the telephone and the internal combustion engine, a part of the accepted atmosphere of the modern experience.'""The day the guns fell silent At 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, bugle calls ended the ‘war to end all wars.’ After four years of carnage, you could hear the ticking of a watch" (WaPo).
A hundred years ago.
The armistice was signed at 5:10 a.m. in a railroad car in the Forest of Compiegne, northeast of Paris, an event described in Persico’s 2004 book, “Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour.”
But it didn’t go into effect until 11 a.m.
All the soldiers had to do was stay alive until then.
“I am as nervous as a kitten,” the British sergeant Cude wrote. “If I can only last out the remainder of the time, and this is everyone’s prayer. I am awfully sorry for those of our chaps who are killed this morning and there must be a decent few of them too.”
Indeed, in some places the war went on insanely right up to 11 a.m....
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