Chapter 8 reassesses the question of why it ultimately proved impossible to end the Great War earlier and through a “peace without victory” along the lines the American president Wilson and other proponents of a negotiated settlement proposed. Then it re-examines how the war actually came to an end in the west. And analyses the making and consequences of the armistice that was finally concluded on 11 November 1918, highlighting that it only provided frail foundations and parameters for a modern Atlantic peace.