On Christmas day, German soldiers emerged from their muddy hell holes waving their arms, showing the Allied Forces that they ...
By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by ...
The close of 1914 brought a momentary pause in the grinding trench warfare. Carols were sung and games briefly replaced ...
That star over battle-scarred fields in France and Belgium on Christmas Eve night in 1914 was the very reminder of Jesus ...
Analysis: a photo from Greece in 1915 is used every year as proof of a heavily mythologised Christmas 1914 truce football match Rising to head a ball in joyous abandon, British soldiers enjoy a ...
Veterans recall the Christmas Truce of 1914 ... There are now no living veterans of WW1, but it is still possible to go back to the First World War through the memories of those who actually ...
Like many myths, the original facts regarding the famous truce took lives of their own in the years following World War I.