“The Christmas truce is a well-known story — it’s been ... “But I thought, ‘What if someone had just kicked a ball around in the snow?’ Then with a bit of research, I found out that ...

But on Christmas Eve, a truce was called. It came to be known as ... An informal soccer game even occurred-the ball appeared seemingly out of nowhere, and about a couple hundred men started ...

A statue of a British and German soldier during the Christmas Truce along the Western Front in World War I. A soccer ball in the middle represents the friendly soccer game that some opposing ...

Soon after, a soccer ball — or football ... Alongside the horrors of Verdun and the Somme, the ‘Christmas Truce; has become one of the most storied parts of World War I.

Gifts were exchanged, and soccer balls flew instead of bullets. But did such a storybook Christmas Day ever actually happen, or is the Christmas truce merely the stuff of legend? The answer ...

Across Europe, holiday campaigns collected and distributed Christmas ... truce’s hundredth anniversary in 2014, including a sculpture unveiled in Liverpool, England, and a steel soccer ball ...

In 2004, David Brown of The Washington Post wrote, “The truce began on Christmas Eve ... with improvised balls. The unit history of the 24 th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces ...

Perhaps that is why stories of a wartime “Christmas Truce” tend to capture our attention, offering the promise of peace amid even the bloodiest of conflicts, if only for a short while.