Germany plans to attack Paris and surprise the French by marching through neutral territory. On August 2, 1914 Germany asked ...
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On a cold Christmas Eve in 1914, something extraordinary happened along the Western Front of World War I. The sound of gunfire faded, and in its place came laughter, songs, and the thud of a football ...
On Christmas Eve in 1914, a light snowfall began to dust the Western Front, unable to settle on the muddy, waterlogged ground that had been obliterated by months of warfare. Meanwhile, as the smell of ...
They were the unappetising biscuits meant to sustain soldiers in the trenches during World War One. But for some these basic emergency rations were used for something far more poignant - a way to send ...
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