The only fictional novel set during the remarkable 1914 Christmas Day Truce — a story of love, hope, and the most unlikely friendships forged on the blood-soaked plains of No Man's Land.
Armed with dreams of heroic victory and Lord Kitchener's rally cry ringing in his ears, Jack Crosby proudly made his way to the front line. Once there, he quickly realised that there was no glory to be had on the blood-soaked fields of Flanders.
Then, on Christmas Eve, dulcet German tones carried on the wings of angels float serenely through the gloriously placid night air...
A hauntingly beautiful and deeply human novel that captures the heartbreak, horror, and fleeting hope of the First World War.
A profoundly humane, beautifully written, and unforgettable novel. A remarkable achievement in historical fiction.
Stories, histories and reflections on the 1914 Christmas Truce — written by Chris Waddington.
"In Flanders fields, whence Christmas came, lay a blanket of glistening frost..." An original poem by Chris Waddington.
Living to 109, Alfred Anderson was the last man to pass who served during the 1914 Christmas Truce.
It reads like Hollywood legend. But it actually happened — men who sought to kill each other hours earlier conversed freely.
Almost 55,000 names carved into stone. Every evening at 8pm, the Last Post rings out beneath the arch.
A 17-year-old princess raised £150,000 to send brass tins of love to every soldier at the front.
Did the famous Christmas Truce football match really happen? The first-hand accounts say yes — but not quite as legend tells it.
The manoeuvres that ended in 35 miles of trenches and the bloody stalemate of the Western Front.
From Blackadder to Paul McCartney to a Sainsbury's advert — how one night in 1914 keeps echoing through our culture.
The marching songs and bitter parodies that helped men cope with the unending horror of the Western Front.
Bully beef, hard biscuits, and tea that masked the taste of petrol-tin water. What men actually ate in the trenches.
How the British GPO delivered millions of letters and parcels to soldiers in Flanders Fields — and the remarkable Post Office Rifles battalion.
From Pope Benedict's rejected plea to the silence of Christmas Eve — a day-by-day account of the most extraordinary event of the First World War.
Christmas Day 1914 brought not just laughter and football — for many, the frosty morning brought joint burial services as the dead were laid to rest.
The celebrated WW1 cartoonist's vivid, unsentimental account of Christmas Day 1914 in No Man's Land — one of the most quoted memoirs of the war.