exchange gifts and even play football. With archive recordings from the BBC and testimony from the Imperial War Museum. Image: British and German troops make a Christmas and New Year truce at the ...

and even played football. Now, that’s a powerful Christ-mas Carol! It inspired a truce on the front lines of World War I. And, isn’t that why we go to church (on Christmas Eve or anytime?) ...

They shared drinks, played football, embraced ... A soldier writes in his diary about the events of the famous Christmas Truce during the first year of World War 1. The truce begins with the ...