Western Front (World War I) - Part 5: Resolution and Reckoning

The Conflict Archive: The Wars That Shaped Civilizations · Jun 12, 2026 · 7m

This final episode in the Western Front series covers the aftermath of the Armistice that ended fighting at the eleventh hour of 11 November 1918. It follows the silence that fell over battlefields from the Ypres Salient to the Somme, where soldiers struggled to believe the fighting had stopped and survivors picked through a landscape of shell holes, wire and unexploded ordnance. The episode also looks at the human toll, citing France's one point four million dead, Britain's nearly one million and Germany's almost two million, along with the wounded and psychologically scarred men who…