“The idea of a truce on Christmas Day is beautiful ... One group hoisted its own canvas banner reading “Merry Christmas” ...

Peacetime Christmas celebrations seemed a world away. Nevertheless, that day Leutnant Walther Stennes, of the German 16th ...

the truce began late that same night when “all down our line of trenches there came to our ears a greeting unique in war: ‘English soldier, English soldier, a merry Christmas, a merry ...

This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” ...

This event, now known as the Christmas Truce of 1914, stands as one of the most remarkable stories in military history. The war had begun just months earlier, with soldiers on all sides marching ...

Why is the truce still remembered ... wished each other a Merry Christmas, "and were soon conversing as if we had known each other for years," wrote Cpl. John Ferguson. The festivities spread ...

The truce lasted for a varying amount of time ... At 8:30am I fired three shots in the air and put up a flag with “Merry Christmas” on it, and I climbed on the parapet. He put up a sheet ...