Amidst the insanity, there were moments of blessed peace. You find yourself wondering: what if they had spread further? Could the horrific loss of life during The War have been averted?
Read Tom Morgan's "The Christmas Truce, 1914" which describes a famous event that occurred during The War's first year:
At Christmas, 1914, there occurred several informal truces at various points along the trench-lines of Northern France and Belgium. It may well be that there were other places where truces took place, but our precise knowledge of events is limited by the amount of direct, eyewitness testimony which has so far been discovered. Nevertheless, there are enough trustworthy reports (and even a few photographs) to convince us that something extraordinary happened that first Christmas of the war, and that it was not entirely an isolated happening.
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