The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man's Land singing "Stille Nacht." Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, ...

With the strength of imperial Germany now evident to all, there appeared to be no chance of victory in the foreseeable future. By this time men were beginning, almost despite themselves, to gain a ...

It is common to regard Christmas as a time of family gatherings, gift giving, and traditions. Today, we often regard Christmas as a moment of fellowship and harmony. But for the people of 1914, ...

GOSHEN — Opposing trenches, yards apart in the midst of war, call a truce in the spirit of Christmas, a recognition of each other's humanity. For its holiday performance, South Bend Civic Theatre ...

LONDON -- Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous "Christmas Truce" of World War I, died Monday at age 109. More ...

Last Christmas my son, Willie, surprised me with a trim, little maroon box that said “Look At Him Go” in gold lettering. Inside were two toy World War I soldiers—a Scot in a khaki kilt and a German ...

From an acclaimed historian and National Book Award finalist comes the poignant story of World War I's 1914 Christmas truce, the spontaneous and tantalizingly brief moment when mortal enemies came ...

In Such Times, We Need Law, Civil Discourse, and Normal Politics More Than Ever Lawfare Back When Tim Kaine Is an Ignoramus A few months into the killing fields of World War I, soldiers reclaimed ...

On Christmas morning we stuck up a board with ‘A Merry Christmas’ on it. The enemy had stuck up a similar one…. Two of our men then threw their equipment off and jumped on the parapet with their hands ...

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The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...