The 1914 Christmas Truce (Part 2)
Dan Snow's History Hit
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It's Not a Flowering a Kind of the Human Spirit
Reginald arms of the north staffordshire regiment took one last look around on the evenin of christmas day. They stood upon the parapet and had a final look round, and not a shot was fired. And that's it. Next day they're back to shooting. For some it lasts almost a week. There are isolated instances, but there is all there is for the rest of the war. The truce isn't reality. It's just a break in the real business of war. That's what they get back to. You could see a man, you could shake hands with him, smoke his cigar, you're perfectly willing to kill them. This was not man
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