Christmas doesn’t stop a war, but it does put a bright circle around the date, making the distance from home and loved ones louder. That’s why the 1914 Christmas Truce keeps coming back on screen. For ...

In 1914 German and British soldiers put their weapons down for a Christmas day soccer match. On Christmas Eve 1914, men of the British Army Heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...

The first Christmas of World War I was a hellish time for Alfred Dougan Chater, a second lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, who woke that morning in a freezing, muddy trench less than ...

It was once called the War to End All Wars, but World War I dragged on year after year. Governments were shattered, lives were destroyed, and many more wars came in its wake. But for one moment in ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The December Bites and Bits of History lunchtime program at Tyler History Center, 325 W. Federal St., will focus on the “A World War I Christmas: The 1914 Christmas Truce.” George Johnson ...

Britain triumphed over Germany 100 years after the start of the First World War - in a commemorative football match at Aldershot to mark the "Christmas Truce" of 1914. The Army side edged out German ...

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the first months of World War I, which changed the way war was waged. The war was supposed to be over by Christmas of 1914, but by December the ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, six months into World War I, a group of Allied and German soldiers put down their weapons for a brief time, shared cigarettes and chocolate with their enemies and joined in ...

NEWBURYPORT — Historian Anthony Guerriero will visit “The Morning Show” on Dec. 16 to explain what really happened during the legendary “Christmas Truce” that took place on the fields of Flanders and ...

We’ve all heard the word “truce” a lot lately, especially in the context of the Israel-Hamas conflict. After intense negotiations, the combatants agreed to stop shooting for a few days to accommodate ...

A resin model of a sculpture illustrating the WW1 Christmas Truce football match inside the remains of St Luke's Church in Liverpool PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images The Athletic FC ⚽ is The Athletic’s ...