Christmas Truce of 1914: one of the most important Christmas events

From the National World War I Museum and Memorial, The Christmas Truce, Winter 1914.
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Williams Faulkners book-length A Fable (1954) takes off from the incident to portray a hopeful pacifist fantasy of what could have happened if the Christmas Truce became much wider and brought the way to a halt.