Trench Foot and The Devil’s Trap. ‘We’re All Fools. Let’s All Go Home.’ Special to The Great War Project (14-16 December) On the Western Front, according to British war correspondent Philip Gibbs, conditions are appalling. “Our men were never dry,” he writes. “They were wet in their trenches and wet in their dugouts. They slept…
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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…