Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World ...

Some of the troops even pointed to a special star. The moment became famously known as the Christmas Truce of 1914. War had broken out in Europe in August 1914. As summer turned to autumn ...

Massive amounts of life had already been extinguished in the war’s opening months, but there was one event that halted the brutality and bloodshed: the famous World War I Christmas Truce of 1914.

On December 24, 1914, the fighting along the Western Front of the First World War stopped suddenly. It was just five months earlier that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The continent was ...

Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World ...

Perhaps that is why stories of a wartime “Christmas Truce” tend to capture our attention, offering the promise of peace amid even the bloodiest of conflicts, if only for a short while.