and leaders on both sides issued orders to ensure that nothing like the Christmas Truce ever happened again. For the rest of World War I, no other truces as iconic as the one in 1914 occurred ...

This spontaneous truce was observed in several places ... Tell the children it was taken on Christmas Day 1914, in the middle of that terrible war. Ask: 'What do you think Christmas felt like ...

Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World ...

Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World ...

What comes to mind when you think of Christmas Eve? Jesus’ birth, Christmas carols, families together, gifts exchanged, are a few thoughts that might come to mind. However, for some ...

The Christmas Truce of 1914, in which German and French soldiers temporarily stopped fighting to celebrate the holiday, was another example of this grand illusion asserting itself. It represents ...

the fighting stopped for Christmas. It wasn’t planned, but... Here’s What You Need to Know: The 1914 truce was to be the only significant attempt at quieting the guns by the soldiers at the ...

Veterans recall the Christmas Truce of 1914, the trenches by night, and what they got up to behind the lines. An omnibus edition of five episodes spanning 1914 to 1917. Show more An omnibus ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: (from the program notes) “The Western Front… Christmas 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song… Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music and peace.

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