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Silent Night - The Remarkable Christmas Truce Of 1914 (Paperback)
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Silent Night - The Remarkable Christmas Truce Of 1914 (Paperback)
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List price R313
Loot Price R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
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SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching
events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on
Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down
their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with their new
friends, the enemy. For a brief, blissful time, remembered since in
song and story, a world war stopped. Even the participants found
what they were doing incredible. Germans placed candle-lit
Christmas trees on trench parapets and warring soldiers sang
carols. In the spirit of the season they ventured out beyond their
barbed wire to meet in No Man's Land, where they buried the dead in
moving ceremonies, exchanged gifts, ate and drank together, and
joyously played football, often with improvised balls. The truce
spread as men defied orders and fired harmlessly into the air. But,
reluctantly, they were forced to re-start history's most bloody
war. SILENT NIGHT vividly recovers a dreamlike event, one of the
most extraordinary of Christmas stories.
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