The Christmas Truce of 1914

Caption on photo: "There was never a good war, and never a bad peace" (I agree with the spirit if not exactly the literal wording)

I don't usually post simple bibliographies. But I did want to list some articles about the 1914 Christmas Truce during the First World War, a spontaneous, unofficial truce that occurred all along the lines between the English and French, on the one side, and the Germans, on the other. Most of these were listed at Antiwar.com, which is a useful aggregator for antiwar articles, though I don't share their Old Right isolationist editorial viewpoint or their enthusiasm for Ron Paul.

The Christmas Truce by Aaron Shepard School Magazine (Australia) Apr. 2001

The Christmas Truce by Simon Rees, FirstWorldWar.com 11/20/04

Short outbreak of sanity; war the only casualty Sydney Morning Herald 12/15/04

In Memory of the Christmas Truce by George Beres, History News Network 12/20/05

The Christmas truce: When the guns fell silent Independent 12/24/05

Peace on earth: The Christmas truce of 1914 by Dr. Richard Elam Cleburne Times-Review 12/24/06

The astonishing war story that a nation chose to forget Telegraph 02/12/2005

The truce is stranger as fiction by Tim Hunter The Age 12/17/05

Faded letter leaves record of famous truce by David Fried North County Times 12/23/05

Short Peace In A Terrible War by John Nichols The Nation Online 12/24/05

Joyeux Noël by by Mark Moring Christianity Today 03/16/06

Stop the war and love thy enemy by Mark Day The Australian 12/22/07

Lyrics to Christmas in the Trenches (1984) by John McCutcheon

Silent Night, Holy Night: The Story of the Christmas Truce (2003) by Stephen Wunderli, et al.

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