It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if ...

Description: In the waters off the coast of central Chile an encounter unfolded on 1 November 1914—the Battle of Coronel. The ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, battling German and British soldiers laid down their arms and sang Christmas carols together — a brief moment of peace in the midst of war.December 1914. World War I had been ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...

Christmas doesn’t stop a war, but it does put a bright circle around the date, making the distance from home and loved ones louder. That’s why the 1914 Christmas Truce keeps coming back on screen. For ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in historical circles, but it is a compelling tale; ...

Why does the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- the event that lit the fuse of World War One 100 years ago Saturday -- still resonate so powerfully? Virtually nobody believes World War Three ...

It’s 1914. The German plan going into what would become World War I is to rush troops to the west and overwhelm France quickly, before the much larger and more formidable Russia has a chance to ...

An original and dramatic series that views the most violent and significant episodes in modern history from a fresh perspective – not as two world wars, but as a continuous narrative of error, ...

Spain's King Alfonso XIII aided families of missing WWI soldiers Palace archive keep thousands of letters of soldiers' relatives Letters are testimony of war's devastation MADRID, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A ...