At 11 a.m. in France on Nov. 11, 1918 — the 11th hour of the day of the 11th month — the guns of World War I fell silent. After more than four years of brutal warfare and more than 16 million military and civilian deaths, the terms of a general armistice took effect.
RFE/RL: World War I – scenes of life and death (PHOTOS)
A picture of a post card released by the Historial de Péronne, Museum of WW1, shows a French soldiers cooking in the trenches during the First World War.
