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To: Ian CLEGG <icbleakhouse@gmail.com&gt;
Subject: The Christmas Truce of the Great War

 

The Christmas Truce of the Great War

 

English and German soldiers together, Christmas 1914

The first Christmas of the Great War — later called World War I — was marked by a number of spontaneous, unplanned yet nearly identical events in the northern reaches of the Western Front: unarmed soldiers from both sides left their trenches and exchanged gifts and pleasantries with their sworn enemies. A Christmas story.

 

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