It was once called the War to End All Wars, but World War I dragged on year after year. Governments were shattered, lives were destroyed, and many more wars came in its wake. But for one moment in ...

All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 depicts the extraordinary events of Christmas 1914 during World War I, when soldiers on opposing sides laid down their arms to celebrate the holiday together.

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, ...

MILWAUKEE - It's a night of music, camaraderie, and hope. Vanguard Milwaukee proudly presents our fourth annual production of "All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914" by Peter Rothstein, directed by ...

December 1914. World War I had been raging for five months. Between minefields and barbed-wire fences, millions of soldiers faced each other in trenches along the Western Front, sometimes only some 30 ...

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 ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- Donald Shepardson, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa, will discuss the background and factors that led to the "Soldiers' Truce: Christmas 1914" event from ...

Following a successful inaugural Christmas Truce project, Brentford Under-12s have completed the task for a second-consecutive year. The young Bees came together to complete a multi-faceted project ...

Britain triumphed over Germany 100 years after the start of the First World War - in a commemorative football match at Aldershot to mark the "Christmas Truce" of 1914. The Army side edged out German ...