In 'Demobilization: our industrial and military demobilization after the armistice, 1918-1920', the intricacies of the interwar period are meticulously unraveled through a tapestry of literary narratives and analytical expositions. This collection captures the turbulence and metamorphosis inherent in the demobilization period, providing readers with an insightful glimpse into the complex transition from wartime to peacetime economies and societies. Within this anthology, readers will encou...

At a few minutes past ten o’clock of the morning of November 11, 1918, the Secretary of War in Washington received from General Pershing a communication informing the Government that eleven o’clock a.m. that day, French time, an armistice with Germany had gone into effect. No message more momentous had ever come to the American War Department. The World War was at an end. It was peace. It was victory.Over there on that American front which had penetrated the supposedly impregnable A...