Unthinkable act of Christmas kindness: The Christmas Truce of World War I

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:59:07 -0500
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Life in the trenches along the Western Front during the First World War was horrific. For hundreds of miles across Belgium and France, British forces – a large number of Scots among them – huddled in six-foot living graves fighting a German enemy who were only shouting distance away.