Silent Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce

Stanley Weintraub


In the early months of WWI, on Christmas eve, men on both sides of the trenches laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration with the enemy. For a brief, blissful time, a world war stopped. Throughout his narrative, Weintraub uses the stories of the men who were there to illuminate the fragile truce.


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