629. WWI: The Christmas Truce

December 25, 2025

Description

Did the Christmas Truce - which saw a number of unofficial ceasefires between the combatants of the First World War, during the Christmas of 1914 - really occur, or was it a myth? What is the real...

Books Referenced

Tarka the Otter

Author: Henry Williamson

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Mentioned as a nature classic written by Henry Williamson about a decade after WWI, described as 'a real kind of perennial children's classic' that has never been out of print

Goodbye to All That

Author: Robert Graves

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Described as 'probably the most famous First World War memoir' written by Robert Graves, who served on the Western Front

Christmas Truce: The Western Front, December 1914

Author: Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton

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Referenced as 'a book for the 70th anniversary' of the Christmas Truce, published in 1984, described as one of the excellent books on the topic

Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce

Author: Stanley Weintraub

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Described as 'another excellent book' about the Christmas Truce by an American historian, published in 2001

The Christmas Truce

Author: Carol Ann Duffy

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A poem published in 2011 that was 'also released as an illustrated children's book' about the WWI Christmas Truce