The Christmas Truce

Voices of the First World War by BBC

Dec 25, 201756:48Society & Culture

An omnibus edition of five episodes of Voices of the First World War, spanning the course of the war from 1914 to 1917. Narrated by Dan Snow, this edition begins with the Christmas Truce of 1914, when German and British...

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