Stanley Weintraub - Silent Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce

Pros: Fascinating subject, interesting recounts of the event.
Cons: Too brief, lacks detail.

The horrors of the First World War may very well exceed those of any other conflict in the history of man, at least from the perspective of those whose task it was to fight it. With the German drive to take Paris and knock France from the war halted ...

Pros: The stories are very detailed and relate a great amount of emotion
Cons: Probably about 75 pages too long

It's difficult to imagine today that the soldiers of two bitter rivals would lower their guns in order to celebrate Christmas in peace, but that's exactly what happened during the first December of World War I. This book is the story of those ...