Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part - Letters from the 1914 Ceasefire on the Western Front (Hardcover)

The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now for the first time hundreds of first person accounts of this most extraordinary period of history have been gathered together telling the story in their own words of the soldiers who met in peace in No Man's Land. The stories of men from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh regiments who played and joked, sang and danced, swapped gifts and shared food and drink with the enemy before returning to war on the Western Front. 'Christmas Truce By The Men Who Took Part' is the largest collection ever drawn together of letters sent home by the officers and soldiers who laid down their guns and shook hands with their foes. The eye opening accounts of the unofficial armistice between German and British forces capture the trepidation and exhilaration, the curiosity, anger, joy and despair of that first Christmas on the unforgiving battlegrounds of the Great War.

General

Imprint:	Fonthill Media
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2021
Authors:	Mike Hill
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-78155-812-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-78155-812-4
Barcode:	9781781558126

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