LONDON -- Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous "Christmas Truce" of World War I, died Monday at age 109. More ...

It is common to regard Christmas as a time of family gatherings, gift giving, and traditions. Today, we often regard Christmas as a moment of fellowship and harmony. But for the people of 1914, ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in historical circles, but it is a compelling tale; ...

The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man's Land singing "Stille Nacht." Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, ...

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 ...

On Christmas morning we stuck up a board with ‘A Merry Christmas’ on it. The enemy had stuck up a similar one…. Two of our men then threw their equipment off and jumped on the parapet with their hands ...

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 ...

LONDON -- Alfred Anderson, 109, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous Christmas Truce of World War I, died Nov. 21 at a nursing ...

KABUL (Reuters) - British and German soldiers gathered in a dusty field in Afghanistan on Wednesday to play a game of in memory of a Christmas truce spontaneously called between their armies a century ...

Rev. James Sutherland-Watt served as the rector of St. Luke’s, Manakin, Emanuel and Grub Hill Episcopal Churches simultaneously from 1938 until his fatal car accident on Jan. 6, 1941. Rev.