From the Mark Steyn Internet web site as extracted and thanks to the tip from Nick.
"The War That Made the World We Live In"
One Hundred Years Ago - - November 11, 2018
We agree to stop fighting. But in a few hours. Give us a spell!
For some, it was the last few hours.
"The belligerents had agreed the terms of the peace at 5am that November morning, and the news was relayed to the commanders in the field shortly thereafter that hostilities would cease at eleven o'clock. And then they all went back to firing at each other for a final six hours. On that last day, British imperial forces lost some 2,400 men, the French 1,170, the Germans 4,120, the Americans about 3,000. The dead in those last hours of the Great War outnumbered the toll of D Day twenty-six years later"
No more I think to be added! Finale YES! The Great War but not great as in the modern context the word great understood!
coolbert.