TY  - GEN
T1  - The Christmas truce : myth, memory, and the First World War
A1  - Crocker, Terri Blom
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn923253240
AB  - The 1914 Christmas truce, when enemy soldiers met, fraternized, and even played football in No Man's Land during the first year of the First World War, is commonly perceived as a manifestation of the anger that soldiers felt toward the meaningless war that they had been tricked into fighting. Contemporaneous sources, however, show that the truce was not an act of defiance; rather, it arose from the professionalism of the soldiers involved, the conditions of static trench warfare, foul weather on the Western Front, the absence of major battles, and memories of traditional celebrations of Christmas. The truce, in short, was caused by rain, mud, curiosity, lack of personal animosity toward the enemy, and homesickness, rather than by frustration and rebellion.
CN  - D530 .C76 2015eb
SN  - 9780813166162
SN  - 0813166160
SN  - 9780813166179
SN  - 0813166179
SN  - 9780813166650
SN  - 0813166659
SN  - 0813174023
SN  - 9780813174020
SN  - 9780813166155
SN  - 0813166152
KW  - Christmas Truce, 1914.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Campaigns : Western Front.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Armistices.
KW  - Trêve de Noël, 1914.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Campagnes et batailles : Front occidental.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Armistices.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Western.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : France.
KW  - Armistices
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
KW  - 1914-1918
ER  -