هدنة عيد الميلاد 1914: ماذا حدث، في رسائل الجنود

For a day or two at Christmas 1914, British and German soldiers on parts of the Western Front stopped shooting at each other, and no general or government had told them to. They sang carols and hymns back and forth across no man’s land, went out to meet halfway, gave each other cigars and buttons, dug graves together for the dead, and in a few places played football. Elsewhere on the same front the war went on as before, and…