Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World ...

Show more For several days over Christmas in 1914 the fighting stopped on the battlefields of the First World War ... make a Christmas and New Year truce at the Western Front, Credit: Hulton ...

Massive amounts of life had already been extinguished in the war’s opening months, but there was one event that halted the brutality and bloodshed: the famous World War I Christmas Truce of 1914.

Almost five months after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and the ambitious powers of the world began the First ... reported that the idea of a Christmas truce was not a new one.