Peace at Last, Guy Cuthbertson
Peace at Last, Guy Cuthbertson
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Peace at Last
A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

Author: Guy Cuthbertson

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/12/2018

Synopsis

November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy are much discussed, this is the first book to focus solely on the day itself, examining how the people of Britain, and the wider world, reacted to the news of peace.

In this rich portrait of Armistice Day, which ranges from midnight to midnight, Guy Cuthbertson brings together news reports, literature, memoirs, and letters to show how the people on the street, as well as soldiers and prominent figures like D. H. Lawrence and David Lloyd George, experienced a strange, singular day of great joy, relief, and optimism.

About Guy Cuthbertson

Guy Cuthbertson is Associate Professor of English Literature at Liverpool Hope University, and the British Academy's Chatterton Lecturer on Poetry in 2018. He has edited two volumes of Edward Thomas's prose, and he is the author of Wilfred Owen (2014).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darren

Interesting book. The style is kind of free form where the author mentions some aspect of Armistice Day, then riffs on that topic for a while until it bleeds into another aspect. There were a lot of interesting factoids about the day and some interesting musings on how the first Armistice Day was a......more

Goodreads review by Fraser

The end of WW I became official at 11 AM 11/11/18, when the armistice was signed (formal treaties and such would be hammered out over the next year). Cuthbertson looks at the reactions to the day: awe, joy, relief, grief for the people who died on the front at the same time, wild celebration and als......more

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