History & The Arts
The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918
...resources to throw a party. Clifford Lane, for instance, recalled that ‘the Armistice was an anti-climax. We were too far gone, too exhausted, really to enjoy it. All we could do was just go back to our billets; there was no cheering, no singing, we had no alcohol’.[6] The hardships and bereavements of the previous four years prevented others from rising to the...