"This account of the events of 1918 is the first major reappraisal of the end of the war for more than twenty years, and describes what is in some respects a forgotten chapter in history.The soldiers who returned to Britain in November 1918 were not the martyrs or victims of popular memory - they were a victorious army, and were greeted as heroes.their generals too, often demonized by posterity, were at the time lionized for their efficient handling of the war's vital endgame."--BOOK JACKET.