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.
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 ...
Sure, here is the new description with all the links and additional text removed: On Christmas Eve 1914 the artillery shelling and bombardments stopped for a little while. During those Christmas days ...
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 ...
Playhouse on Park has taken another shot at a heartwarming if disarming Christmas-themed musical war drama. The theater first presented “All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914” in 2020 as a ...
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 ...
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 ...
A resin model of a sculpture illustrating the WW1 Christmas Truce football match inside the remains of St Luke's Church in Liverpool PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images The Athletic FC ⚽ is The Athletic’s ...