The Curious World of Christmas by Niall Edworthy
Author:Niall Edworthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00
Afterwards, we placed even more candles than before on our kilometre-long
trench, as well as Christmas trees. It was the purest illumination—the British
expressed their joy through whistles and clapping. Like most people, I spent the
whole night awake. It was a wonderful, if somewhat cold night.… The English
brought a soccer ball from the trenches, and pretty soon a lively game ensued.
How marvellously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English officers felt the
same way about it. Thus Christmas, the celebration of Love, managed to bring
mortal enemies together as friends for a time.
The British troops who fraternized with Zehmisch and his comrades were the men of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the battalion of Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. In his book The War the Infantry Knew Captain J. Dunn, a medic in the Royal Welch, recorded how hostilities resumed on Boxing Day:
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