Monday, December 24, 2018

Christmas Truce of 1914

The Christmas Truce of 1914 is my favorite modern Christmas story. Here's a BBC iWonder page discussing various aspects of it: What really happened in the Christmas truce of 1914? (n/d, accessed 12/24/2018).

This is a 2015 account, During World War I enemies stopped fighting and celebrated Christmas together Business Insider 12/25/2018.

This is a C-Span interview of 11/30/2001 with Stanley Weintraub, author of Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce (2001).

John McCutcheon wrote a song celebrating the event, Christmas in the Trenches 11/16/2008:


We might call it the No-War on Christmas.

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