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The Christmas Truce : Myth, Memory, and the First World War /
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. C...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "A candle lit in the darkness": the Christmas truce and the First World War
- "Absolute hell": the Western Front in 1914
- "A great day with our enemies": the Christmas truce
- "No war today": the Christmas truce as reported in official war diaries and regimental histories
- "One day of peace at the front": the Christmas truce and the British press
- "That unique and weird Christmas": the Christmas truce during the war
- "The curious Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1920-1959
- "The famous Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1960-1969
- "The legendary Christmas truce": the First World War, the Christmas truce, and social history, 1970-1989
- "Memories of Christmas 1914 persist": orthodoxy, revisionism, and the Christmas truce, 1990-2014
- "It was peace that won": the Christmas truce and the narrative of the First World War.