Next week, Tuesday the 11th of November, marks a day of great significance to western civilization. This is Armistice Day, the day when the guns fell silent and World War I came to an end.

Known today in the United States as Veterans Day and in Britain as Remembrance Day, Nov. 11 is a solemn hour. Although today we know that the loss of life in World War II would be even greater, at the time, the sheer carnage of World War I was unlike anything Europe had ever seen.

One of the most horrible sites in that conflict was around the city of Ypres, the center of the Belgian Province of Flanders. In the war, the territory was the center of an area known as the Ypres Salient, or a large bulge in the Allied lines surrounded on three sides by the Imperial German Army, and the politics of the war m

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