All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. During WWI, the soldiers defy the orders of their commanding officers and stop the hostilities for one night -- Christmas Eve 1914. The two sides lay down ...
The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...