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Preparing for the Centenary of the End of World War I (28 photos)

This Sunday, November 11, 2018, will mark the passing of 100 years since the end of World War I—the “war to end all wars.” In 1918, on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,” in a forest near the French city of Compiègne, French, British, and German leaders met and signed an armistice that officially ended a horrific conflict that claimed the lives of more than 16 million people over four years. Earlier this month, Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, inaugurated a series of commemorations of the centenary, combining messages of remembrance with warnings about the recent growth of nationalism in the world. Also, be sure to see The Fading Battlefields of World War I.

British artist Rob Heard stands among rows of 72,396 shrouded figures which form his piece of commemorative art “Shrouds of the Somme” to mark the upcoming centenary of the end of World War I, in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, on November 7, 2018. Each figure is a human form, individually shaped, shrouded and made to a name of the 72,396 missing British and Commonwealth servicemen who were killed fighting in the Somme area of France between July 1, 1916 and March 20, 1918 who have no known grave and whose names are engraved on the Thiepval Memorial in France. ( Matt Dunham / AP)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/11/centenary-end-of-world-war-i/575224/