Holiday show tells the true story of the 1914 Christmas Truce, featuring classic carols, such as “Silent Night,” in multiple ...
The Western Front. Christmas. A German soldier sets down his rifle and steps into No Man’s Land, singing “Silent Night”. Thus ...
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 ...
On Christmas Eve in 1914, on a WWI battlefield, German and Allied soldiers ceased fire and joined together to trade songs and have a Christmas Truce. Inspired by the story of the Christmas Truce, Jim ...
On Christmas Eve 1914, six months into World War I, a group of Allied and German soldiers put down their weapons for a brief time, shared cigarettes and chocolate with their enemies and joined in ...
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 ...
We’ve all heard the word “truce” a lot lately, especially in the context of the Israel-Hamas conflict. After intense negotiations, the combatants agreed to stop shooting for a few days to accommodate ...
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- Donald Shepardson, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa, will discuss the background and factors that led to the "Soldiers' Truce: Christmas 1914" event from ...
Rev. James Sutherland-Watt served as the rector of St. Luke’s, Manakin, Emanuel and Grub Hill Episcopal Churches simultaneously from 1938 until his fatal car accident on Jan. 6, 1941. Rev.
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, ...
LONDON -- Alfred Anderson, 109, 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 Nov. 21 at a nursing ...
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