PLUS: Readers remember the First World War. View in your browser Sunday November 11 2018 Armistice Day in London, November 11, 1918. This photo, taken near the Royal London Hospital on Whitechapel Road, has been restored by an expert colourist for The Times and The Sunday Times.   One hundred years ago today the guns fell silent. The Great War was not officially over – the Treaty of Versailles would not be signed until the following year – but the killing had finally come to an end. The armistice was agreed at 5am on the morning of November 11, and signed a few minutes later, to come into effect at 11 o’clock – the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. A century later, the First World War has lost none of its power to fascinate and appal us in equal measure. It was not only the scale of the slaughter, the millions who died. It was the way that technological advances had led to killing on an industrial scale, to seemingly little effect. Men died in their tens of thousands to gain just a few yards of ground. Historians still argue about the war – why it happened, what it was all for. But more importantly, people still remember: family members who died, men whose lives were scarred by what they lived through. The echoes of the war still resound today. Valentine Low Journalist, The Times valentine.low@thetimes.co.uk @valentinelow The legacy of the First World War Sebastian Faulks Australian troops at the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917 The Birdsong author questions some of the prevailing views about the ‘war to end all wars’. Read the full story How the First World War was won Using maps published in The Times more than 100 years ago, Mark Barnes and Alice Foster explain how the Allies launched the offensive that ended the First World War. Explore the maps Sacrifice of the Great War was far from futile Max Hastings British soldiers in a trench, October 28, 1914 A century on from the 1918 Armistice, we should remember that 700,000 British troops died saving their nation from a worse fate. Read the full story Remembrance is hollow without brutal honesty niall ferguson The young are being taught dangerous nonsense about the Great War. Read the full story How the Times reported the Armistice INTERACTIVE “The din under the windows of the office is so great that it is almost impossible to dictate this telegram.” – the Late War Edition of The Times Explore an annotated version of the newspaper published on November 12, 1918 — the first to celebrate the signing of the Armistice agreement. Explore the paper ‘I’ll name my son after you’ The memory of hundreds of Great War Tommies will live on thanks to one man’s work in tracking them down. Read the full story Readers remember the First World War Don Cartwright (third left) joined the Royal Artillery Regiment and became captain of 152nd Brigade RA France. He was killed on October 5, 1918, just a few weeks short of the armistice. He was apparently in his tent chatting with the padre when it received a direct hit from an enemy shell – Alexander D Burnett Sinking ships, unexploded shells and trench warfare... we asked for your relatives’ stories from the First World War; here’s what you told us. Read the stories D-Day anniversary tour Mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on a fascinating tour with historian Dr Roderick Bailey. You'll visit key battle sites in six European countries and trace the course of the Allied troops in the vast operation to liberate Europe. Find out more   The Times History of the War Download 225 chapters from the extraordinary Times History, published as supplements week by week and collected together in 1921 into 22 volumes, with 11,000 pages, 6 million words, thousands of photographs, graphics, illustrations and maps. Download here   Follow us You have received this email as part of your membership entitlement. If you no longer wish to receive these communications, please follow this link to edit your email preferences. You will continue to receive newsletters with exclusive benefits and updates, Times+ newsletters, offers and promotions and market research emails, provided you have not unsubscribed from those individual communications. This email is from a member of the News UK group. News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, with its registered office at 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, United Kingdom is the holding company for the News UK Group and is registered in England No. 81701. VAT number GB 243 8054 69. To see our privacy policy, click here.