Themes: Christmas ... together in No-Man's-Land, between the battle lines. They shared drinks, played football, embraced, exchanged presents and sang carols. This spontaneous truce was observed ...

The Christmas Truce of 1914," put on by South Bend Civic Theatre, reflects on today as enemy soldiers find commonality with each other.

The First World War shocked the world with its brutality and casualties. But for a brief time at Christmas 1914, enemies became warm friends.

We’ve all heard the word “truce” a lot lately, especially in the context of the Israel-Hamas conflict. After intense negotiations, the combatants agreed to stop shooting for a few days to ...

A miracle or a freak occurrence? Either way, it actually happened. Peter Rothstein’s “All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of ...

More than a century ago, British and German soldiers sang Christmas carols on opposite sides of the battlefield. Daily Pilot columnist Patrice Apodaca wonders if troops at war can set aside their ...

The Christmas Truce of 1914. During WWI, the soldiers defy the orders of their commanding officers and stop the hostilities ...

A German soldier steps into No Man's Land singing "Stille Nacht ... Get All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Email Alerts ...

On Christmas Eve, 1915, an attempt to replicate the famous truce amongst the soldiers of World War I fell on deaf ears. There ...

Narrated by Dan Snow, this edition begins with the Christmas Truce of 1914, when German and British troops mingled and played football in No Man's Land on the Western Front. Veterans recall the ...