Not If The Generals Have Their Way. Killing Continues on Christmas Eve. Special to The Great War Project. (21-24 December) As Christmas approaches, many soldiers on both sides of the Western Front are reminded of the Christmas Truce of 1914, a year previous. British, French, and German soldiers spontaneously came out of their trenches to…
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GUNS FALL SILENT IN SPONTANEOUS TRUCE ON WESTERN FRONT
by Mike Shuster
Widespread Fraternization of German and Allied Troops. Spontaneous Outpouring of Anti-War Sentiment. Special to The Great War Project (24-25 December) And now something unexpected happens – something that will echo powerfully down through these one hundred years. Something that historians call “a spontaneous outburst of pacific feeling” in the war zones, according to historian Martin…