On Christmas Eve, 1914, the Western Front was supposed to be silent only because of exhaustion. Instead, something far stranger happened. In the freezing trenches of northern France and Belgium, ...
On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...
Despite seven wounds, author Ernst Junger glorified the war. Nov. 3, 2010— -- August 26, 1916, Guillemont, Somme region, northeastern France: "In front of my hole lies an Englishman who fell ...