The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination
more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent.
Now for the first time, hundreds of first person accounts of this most
extraordinary period of history have been gathered together telling the
story in their own words of the soldiers who met in peace in No Man's
Land. The stories of men from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh
regiments who played and joked, sang and danced, swapped gifts and
shared food and drink with the enemy before returning to war on the
Western Front.
Christmas Truce By The Men Who Took Part is the largest collection
ever drawn together of letters sent home by the officers and soldiers
who laid down their guns and shook hands with their foes. The eye
opening accounts of the unofficial armistice between German and British
forces capture the trepidation and exhilaration, the curiosity, anger,
joy and despair of that first Christmas on the unforgiving battlegrounds
of the Great War.