WWI: The Christmas Truce (TRIH ep 629)
1914 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the 1914 Christmas Truce on the Western Front, examining what happened, who initiated it and why it did not end the First World War. They trace fraternisation beginning in late 1914, highlighting German-led carol-singing and small exchanges across no man's land, and assess vivid eyewitness accounts (notably Henry Williamson).
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Around 1914
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)