When World War I broke out in July 1914, many Europeans thought the fighting would be over by Christmas. It wasn’t, and nearly six months after the war began, hundreds of thousands of soldiers ...

Remembering World War I’s Christmas Truce. December 24, 2024. By: Peter Suciu. Share. Share this link on Facebook; ... The Legacy of the Truce. Sadly, the war didn’t end on December 25, 1914.

The Christmas Truce may have been a break from reality, but it was not the dawn of peace it's oftentimes made out to be. ... By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months.

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 War broke out in the summer of 1914 ...

Soldiers during the Christmas Truce on the western front. Photo: Imperial War Museum, CC BY-NC. To fill the void, this glorious photograph of soldiers playing football in Greece has been appropriated.