Commentary
By Christmas Day 1914, five months after the outbreak of the Great War, trenches filled with British, Canadian, French, and German troops faced each other on a deadly European battlefront.
A sculpture in Liverpool, England, depicts a British and a German soldier about to shake hands, commemorating the gesture of peace and goodwill during World War I when soldiers on opposing sides stopped fighting and played soccer together on Christmas Day 1914. John B Hewitt/Shutterstock
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William Brooks
Author
William Brooks is a Canadian writer who contributes to The Epoch Times from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
