All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. During WWI, the soldiers defy the orders of their commanding officers and stop the hostilities for one night -- Christmas Eve 1914. The two sides lay down ...
Allied and German soldiers laid down their arms to celebrate Christmas together during World War I. The Western Front. Christmas. 1914. Out of the violence comes a silence, then a song. A German ...
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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 is written by Asolo Rep's Producing ...
GOSHEN — Opposing trenches, yards apart in the midst of war, call a truce in the spirit of Christmas, a recognition of each other's humanity. For its holiday performance, South Bend Civic Theatre ...
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 ...