On 14 August 1918, King George V called for a “Day of Prayer”. At the GHQ in France, the godly Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Haig, held that day of prayer in the headquarters.
When the battle began again, it became known as the Hundred Days Victory, which culminated in the Armistice. “An almost uninterrupted series of perfect summer days”, with “early morning thick mists”, made the weather favourable to the Allies for the first time in the war, each attack attaining its objective until the Armistice was signed.
Haig’s diary ends abruptly on 11 November. The soldiers’ work was done. There were no sentences of smug satisfaction written by him. What further he had to say on the subject was said that night on his knees.
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