The story of a Yuletide football match between British and German troops on the frontlines of battle is so good, it's still being told, embellished and re-lived 100 years later ...

If “war is what happens when language fails,” as Margaret Atwood once wrote, then the Christmas truce is proof that peace is what happens when language prevails. On Christmas Eve of 1914, allied ...

The Christmas Truce of 1914 was chronicled briefly in the 1969 musical satire Oh! What a Lovely War. A similar scene served as the backdrop for Paul McCartney’s 1983 music video ...

But on Christmas Eve, a truce was called. It came to be known as the Christmas Truce. Earlier in the month, Pope Benedict XV urged a holiday truce, but he didn't really believe it would succeed.

Most accounts suggest the truce began with carol singing from the trenches on Christmas Eve, “a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white almost everywhere”, as Pvt. Albert Moren of ...

What is true is that there was a truce. On the morning of Christmas Day, 1914 — the war only six months old at that point but already bloody and horrific — there was a brief and unofficial ...

World War One monument to Christmas Truce football match played between English and German troops in the No Man's Land of Ploegsteert, West Flanders, Belgium. (Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images ...