On the night of December 24, 1914, amid the devastation of World War I’s Western Front, soldiers on both sides found a moment ...

It is common to regard Christmas as a time of family gatherings, gift giving, and traditions. Today, we often regard Christmas as a moment of fellowship and harmony. But for the people of 1914, ...

With the strength of imperial Germany now evident to all, there appeared to be no chance of victory in the foreseeable future. By this time men were beginning, almost despite themselves, to gain a ...

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 ...

Opera Orlando shares a message of camaraderie, hope, and peace this holiday season as it remounts its acclaimed 2019 production of All is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914. Set along the Western Front ...

On Christmas morning we stuck up a board with ‘A Merry Christmas’ on it. The enemy had stuck up a similar one…. Two of our men then threw their equipment off and jumped on the parapet with their hands ...

On December 24, 1914, the fighting along the Western Front of the First World War stopped suddenly. It was just five months earlier that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The continent was ...

In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, the guns briefly fell silent. The Christmas truce ...

GOSHEN — Opposing trenches, yards apart in the midst of war, call a truce in the spirit of Christmas, a recognition of each other's humanity. For its holiday performance, South Bend Civic Theatre ...

In late 1914, the Great War was raging, and British and German troops on the Western Front were locked in a miserable battle of inches. Soldiers shivered in the mud of claustrophobic trenches. They ...

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 ...