Christmas Truce

[Biber]

Just finished reading Brown & Seaton's Christmas Truce. Utterly fantastic that something like that geniunely took place! While I understand the dynamics that brought it all about, and why it was only short lived, I cannot help but wonder what the course of following decades would have been had the truce become so widespread and effective as to force a political solution to the war rather than a military one.

Biber

[Bob Hunter]

I just started reading the book based on your comment and interesting speculation.

[Tony]

I've actually been to the (suposed) field where the Saxons beat us in a game of football. It's hard to imagine that taking place along some parts of the front and in others they carried on firing as normal.

I too have Brown & Seaton's book, a fantastic read I thought.

Tony

[TerryG]

Whilst recently on an Air France flight, I watched the film "Joyeux Noel" which covers this event. Not a very exciting film but rather moving in places and worth watching I guess, if only to compare to the book you are reading. By the way, the film was in French with English subtitles.