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 ...

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 ...

Image: British and German troops make a Christmas and New Year truce at the Western Front, Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...