Amazing Sport Stories
Amazing Sport Stories
BBC World Service
The Christmas truce
12 minutes Posted Dec 25, 2023 at 1:30 am.
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The deafening roar of shells exploding, a cacophony of bullets whizzing past, the air thick with smoke. This is Belgium, 1914 and life in the trenches for British and German soldiers is the definition of misery. But for one beautiful, spontaneous moment, peace and football replaces the fighting with a Christmas Truce. This is the story of what happened that day in no man's land on the Western Front during World War One.