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Christmas Day, 1914

Shain E. Thomas
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6 min readDec 2, 2019

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Caption: British and German troops meeting in No-Mans’s Land during the unofficial truce on Christmas Day in 1914

It has been over a century since the Christmas Day Truce of 1914. The Great War, commonly referred to as either the First World War or World War I, was supposed to have been over by the beginning of the Christmas holiday.

History shows the war lasted way beyond Christmas Day 1914. Despite there being a…

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Shain E. Thomas
Med Daily

With an M.Sc. from the University of North Texas, I’m a freelance journalist and a social historian. #APStylebook #BBCStyleGuide http://shainethomas.com/