This is a fragment of a shrapnel artillery shell my dad found yesterday on mount Grappa, Italy. As far as I know, there was no fighting on the Grappa during WWII, so it's very likely that this fragment comes from WWI. it's incredible to think that it has been there for more than 100 years!

Finished processing James F. Miller's 'Inside the victories' Volume 1 book onto my site meettheredbaron.com.

It contains a detailed analysis of the incident on 6 July 1917 which wounded Richthofen and made him make an emergency landing.

Enjoy reading it!

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The Allied armies would revolt if they found out the Germans surrendered and their generals refused to accept it. Now if the Germans refused Allied armistice terms in 1918 then the fight goes on, but Germany was falling apart into communist uprisings, so were literally unable to continue, which is why they accepted ANY terms the Allies offered OTL. What happened IOTL was the Germans asked for the armistice, the Allies gave them really harsh ones, the Germans accepted because they had no choice, so the war ended. Then when the terms the Germans thought were intolerable were offered in 1919 at Versailles, they had to accept because armistice terms meant the Allies held German Ruhr industry and Rheinland bridgeheads, while the army was pretty much been disbanded; continued war was impossible while the German civil war wrapped up.

Along with this.

Plus the war-weary Germans now have a reason to fight and make the invasion as bloody as possible.

As well as.

There's a very real chance you'd see a full scale revolt or mass desertions in the British and French armies. The French already mutinied once after all. And at the utmost extreme, well... When the Americans have the only intact army, they're the only ones with any real influence over the peace terms, you know?

And a hell lot more comments vocalizing the same sentiments in this thread.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-german-surrender-in-wwi-not-accepted-germany-invaded.404642/

So it makes me want to ask history buffs and other experts........ Despite the oh so common alternate history scenarios of invading Germany for future permanent peace and preventing World War 2 from ever happening leading to a more modern more prosperous era of peace that lasts onto today........ Would continuing to invade into Germany to "end the threat once and for all" actually end up losing the first World War if the refusal for an armistice with the German generals and politicians is made publicly to the rest of the world just as the quoted posts state? Was American presence alone not enough to continue the Entente's will to fight to the bitter despite how its so emphasized as the gamechanger in boosting French morale across a lot of common books?