I have just been through one of the most extraordinary scenes imaginable
On Christmas Eve 1914, a soldier writes home
On Christmas Eve of 1914, five months into World War I, something amazing happened: thousands of British and German troops on the Western Front decided to put down their weapons, rise from the trenches, and greet each other peacefully. In fact, for the next few days, close to 100,000 men, British and German,…
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