By Matthew ParishWednesday 11 November 2026At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns finally fell silent along the Western Front. After four years of unprecedented industrial slaughter, Europe emerged from the most destructive conflict in its history, convinced that the horrors it had endured must never be repeated. Millions of men lay dead in the mud of France and Belgium, the great continental empires had collapsed and an entire generation had been trauma