History of War Magazine Issue 61 Retour à l'édition précédente

ARMISTICE; THE AFTERMATH
Down through the generations, the familiar story told of the Great War is retold time and time again. Unfortunately, the neat, happy ending of World
War I was anything but for people all over the world. Across Eastern Europe and the Middle East fighting continued, on and off, well into the 1920s, as actors on the ground sought to either enforce the political agreements made at the end of the war, or to overturn or influence decisions they felt were unfavourable to them. Here, we look at a handful of conflicts in the post-war period, reminding us that the end of one war too often simply sets the scene for the next one. When WWI ended, the armed forces of most
belligerent countries were still scattered all over Europe and in parts of the Middle East and Africa. Many of the German armies that had been left strewn across Eastern Europe and western Russia simply chose not to head
home, but instead operated as independent armies pursuing their own political objectives.