The Christmas Truce of 1914 (Repeat)
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The Christmas Mission of the Post Office Rifles
On Christmas Eve 1915, the post office rifles arrived in a notorious section of trench south of Lille. The two sides are only 40 yards apart, barely more than a length of three London tramcars back home. Captain Eric Gore Brown has received a stern memorandum from his superiors at the headquarters of the 47th London Division. Any man attempting to communicate either by signal or word of mouth, or by any other means, is to be seriously punished. To military leaders, both British and German, the Christmas truce of 1914 is an embarrassment, an aberration in the conduct of the war that must never happen again. But in the years that followed the armistice of 1918, its legacy changes
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