SILENT NIGHT: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
by Stanley Weintraub
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/as new
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Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. Jacket in mylar protector. Illustrated, descriptive bibliography, index, 206 pages. ~~~ "Weintraub's poignant account of the day one of the worst of wars took a holiday sounds like the stuff of fiction, but it was the sort of event that fiction can only imitate. No wonder that his book reads like a novel, a true story that has the power to haunt." --Robert Cowley, founding editor of Military History Quarterly.
Synopsis
In the early months of World War I, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides of the trenches laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. Despite orders to continue shooting, the unofficial truce spread across the front lines. Even the participants found what they were doing incredible: Germans placed candlelit Christmas trees on trench parapets, warring soldiers sang carols, and men on both sides shared food parcels from home. They climbed from the trenches to meet in "No Man's Land" where they buried the dead, exchanged gifts, ate and drank together, and even played soccer. Throughout his narrative, Stanley Weintraub uses the stories of the men who were there, as well as their letters and diaries, to illuminate the fragile truce and bring to life this extraordinary moment in time.
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- Bookseller
- Monongahela Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69
- Title
- SILENT NIGHT: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
- Author
- Stanley Weintraub
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 206
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WWI, First World War, Great War, Christmas Truce
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War I;
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