7. Opportunity for reflection [You may wish to play the Christmas Truce audio slideshow (see 'Key links' above). It lasts for one minute and comprises archive images of the Truce, set to a simple ...

On December 24, 1914, the fighting along the Western Front of the First World War stopped suddenly. It was just five months earlier that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The continent was ...

They passed around family photos. As dawn approached ... However, the spontaneous Christmas truce has never happened again due to officer’s threats of disciplinary action if it were repeated.