The OTHER Christmas truce
The Christmas Truce of 1914 is famous in the annals of history, but there was a little-known truce in the Ardennes forest in 1944
Dear Mother,
Yesterday we met with the Germans and shook hands in the ground between the trenches, & exchanged souvenirs, and shook hands. Yes, all day Xmas day, & as I write this! Marvellous, isn’t it?
This is but one letter home about that incredible first Christmas of the First World War. The men, Germans on one side of No Man’s Land, French, British, …
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