Opera Orlando presents the Orlando premiere of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell's Pulitzer Prize winning Silent Night, a cinematic retelling of the 1914 Christmas Truce during World War I. Based on the ...

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) World War I is considered the most important event of the 20th century. Just about everything that ...

In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in... Remembering the World War I Christmas truce MARY ...

In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, the guns briefly fell silent. The Christmas truce ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...

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On Christmas Eve a century ago, an extraordinary event took place amid the mud-filled, rat-infested, barbed wire-entangled trenches that cut across Europe during World War I. As British and German ...

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 ...