Silent Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce
Silent night brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war, when Germans, British, Belgians and French-laid down their arms and joined together in a spontaneous celebration with their enemy. For a brief, blistful time a world war stopped.
Silent night brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war, when Germans, British, Belgians and French-laid down their arms and joined together in a spontaneous celebration with their enemy. For a brief, blistful time a world war stopped.
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ISBN:
9780684866215 (0684866218)
Edition language: English
It is with awe that people speak of the unprecedented Christmas Eve truce amongst those all along the Western Front in 1914, the first winter of World War I. Nothing like it had ever been seen before or since. The German troops risked life and limb to place their Christmas trees along the parapets a...
This is an enjoyable and well written account of the 1914 truce that happened during World War 1 on the Western Front in the improbable setting of the trenches. Time and again Stanley Weintraub uncovers examples of how, despite orders from senior officers, the troops in the trenches came together to...
This is an enjoyable and well written account of the 1914 truce that happened during World War 1 on the Western Front in the improbable setting of the trenches. Time and again Stanley Weintraub uncovers examples of how, despite orders from senior officers, the troops in the trenches came together to...
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