Themes: Christmas; Christmas Eve; peace and goodwill; comradeship; the power of the Christmas 'message'. Summary: By Christmas 1914 soldiers from the Allied and German armies had dug-in along a ...

Veterans recall the Christmas ... of the First World War, spanning the course of the war from 1914 to 1917. Narrated by Dan Snow, this edition begins with the Christmas Truce of 1914, when German ...

Asolo Rep’s director created a play based on real events when World War I soldiers briefly put down their weapons on ...

A collection of World War One soldiers' stories has shed light on the famous Christmas truce of 1914. Maude Alice Lineham was ...

We’ve all heard the word “truce” a lot lately ... the same carol in the middle of a war.” "It was a Christmas card Christmas Eve," wrote one British soldier. "There was white beautiful ...

It has become one of the most famous and mythologised events of the First World War ... the Christmas spirit with their German counterparts, in what later became known as The Christmas Truce.