Here are some stories from Deseret News archives about the truce and what lessons we can learn today, event 110 years later: “ A century later, the mythic thud of the ball in WWI Christmas Truce ...

The Christmas Truce may have been a break from reality, but it was not the dawn of peace it's oftentimes made out to be.

The Christmas truce didn’t come out of nowhere. The pope at the time, Benedict XV, had often decried the aggression and bloodshed of the war and had most recently called for peace in a letter a ...

The Christmas truce. On Dec. 25, 1914, ... From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

The Illustrated London News's illustration of the Christmas Truce: "British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchanging Headgear: A Christmas Truce between Opposing Trenches" The subcaption reads ...

The Truce is one of the most evocative tales told about World War 1. New evidence shows Indians laid down arms too, and ...

Within a few hours on Christmas Eve 1914, entire units simply stopped fighting, thus giving birth to what is now known as the Christmas Truce. Stunningly, some 100,000 soldiers participated.

FILE – A Ukrainian soldier fires a mortar at Russian positions in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Inspired by the miraculous Christmas truce of 1914, in which 100,000 ...

By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by Christmas,” then it was clear they had been cruelly mistaken.

The Christmas truce. On Dec. 25, 1914, ... From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Reenactors, from various living history groups, are dressed in World War I German and British uniforms as they participate in the reenactment of the 1914 Christmas Truce in Ploegsteert, Belgium ...