The Illustrated London News's illustration of the Christmas Truce: "British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchanging Headgear: A Christmas Truce between Opposing Trenches" (via Wikimedia Commons) In ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, the brutal war that gripped Europe halted spontaneously, with both sets of soldiers observing a small window of peace. More than 100,000 soldiers on the battlefields of Belgium ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. This article is more than 4 years old. The Western Front, ...

The story of the Christmas Truce is one that seems so beautiful, so simple, so genuine that it must be apocryphal. Roughly put: On Christmas Day 1914, the year World War I broke out, the combatants ...

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 ...

Although World War I was only in its fourth month, the casualties were appalling in their scale. Since the opening of hostilities in early August 1914, nearly 1 million combatants had been killed, ...

With the strength of imperial Germany now evident to all, there appeared to be no chance of victory in the foreseeable future. By this time men were beginning, almost despite themselves, to gain a ...