October 1918

Italy finally attacks. Turkey drops out of the war and Austria-Hungary begins to disintegrate. Ludendorff sacked as Germany’s quartermaster-general amidst collapsing army morale and German requests for an armistice.

1/10/1918 The fall of Damascus

2/10/1918 Western Front: in the north Germany retreats, while in the Argonne the “Lost Battalion” gets lost

3/10/1918 Allenby lays down the law to Faisal

3/10/1918 Germany requests an armistice

4/10/1918 Cher Ami, brave pigeon of the Argonne

5/10/1918 Star French aviator Roland Garros shot down

7/10/1918 New states begin to emerge from the ashes of German and Austro-Hungarian defeat

7/10/1918 Haig and Foch scent victory, the Americans finally rescue their Lost Battalion

7/10/1918 Twilight of the Komuch

8/10/1918 As French troops land in Beirut, the Turkish government resigns

9/10/1918 A German king for Finland

9/10/1918 As Canadian troops recover Cambrai, Wilson’s reply to Prince Max’s note arrives in Berlin

10/10/1918 The sinking of the RMS Leinster

12/10/1918 Prince Max replies to Wilson, accepting the Fourteen Points…