The British, too, were being inundated with letters and parcels containing ... In some areas it was just Christmas Eve or Christmas Day itself. But elsewhere the truce endured for several days.

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Today, I’m writing about the “Christmas Truce.” I was recently researching the spontaneous cease-fire that took place on Christmas Eve, 1914, between German and British soldiers on the ...

I could tell by touch there were Christmas letters in the cards. The one thing age can’t change, even at Christmas, is the need we all have to make our life bigger and more exciting than it ...

Colombian guerrilla fighters of the National Liberation Army Monday announced a unilateral Christmas truce from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2, although the measure would only cover the State Military and ...

TASS/. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga publicly rejected Hungary's proposal of a Christmas Day truce with Russia at a meeting of top EU diplomats in Brussels, Hungarian Foreign Minister ...

Themes: Christmas; Christmas Eve; peace and goodwill; comradeship; the power of the Christmas 'message'. Summary: By Christmas 1914 soldiers from the Allied and German armies had dug-in along a ...

Image: British and German troops make a Christmas and New Year truce at the Western Front, Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...