At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War ended. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War -- often called the Great War or the war to end all wars -- left nine million soldiers dead ...