On Christmas Eve 1914, the warring soldiers fighting in the front line trenches near Lens, France, staged a spontaneous truce. The peace was not ordered from the brass at HQ.

On Christmas Eve 1914, Belgium’s cold was even colder in the wet and the mud of the trenches along the Flanders front. Capt. Charles Stockwell of the Fifth Welsh Fusiliers was pulling his coat ...

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 ...

A World War I sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent, England, celebrates the Christmas Day truce, during which rival troops stopped fighting, left the trenches and are said to have played soccer instead.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...