2018First World War Armistice (1918-2018) - First Day Cover

It was the year 1918. At last, the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” had arrived. The armistice was signed in the forest of Compiègne, and the world began to breathe once again. In the background lay ten million dead and twenty million injured. Along with the corpses,there were those who had su ered wounds to their very soul, and we willnever know just how many of them there were.