In the midst of war, soldiers laid down their arms to sing Christmas carols, play soccer, and barter with the cigarettes and sweets they'd received in care packages from the nations they served.

As the Christmas holidays begin, a group of 10 war-obsessed kids have a wave of inspiration: What if they spend the next two weeks engaged in a simulated war, armed only with shields, wooden ...

The warring countries in WW1 had discussed a cease fire to celebrate Christmas, but no agreement ... were afraid this could be a trick, but they trusted their gut. This then evolved into a shared ...

Veterans recall the Christmas Truce of 1914, the trenches by night, and what they got up ... living veterans of WW1, but it is still possible to go back to the First World War through the memories ...

and Ireland effectively made many long-held Christmas traditions illegal, and it went down about as well as you might imagine - ultimately helping to reignite the English Civil War. Video by Dan ...

“This war stopped everything.” Church leaders in Jerusalem and the Bethlehem city council took the decision last month to forego “any unnecessarily festive” Christmas celebrations in ...