629. WWI: The Christmas Truce

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Mentioned as a nature classic by Henry Williamson, the soldier who wrote about the Christmas Truce, published about a decade after the First World War and never out of print since.

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Described as probably the most famous First World War memoir, mentioned when discussing that the famous 3-2 football match story actually comes from a short story by Robert Graves, not a real account.

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A poem published in 2011 that was also released as an illustrated children's book, read aloud in the episode to illustrate the sentimentality surrounding the Christmas Truce story.

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Mentioned as an excellent book on the Christmas Truce, written for the 70th anniversary in 1984 by Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton.

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Mentioned as another excellent book on the Christmas Truce by an American historian, published in 2001.