The Christmas Truce at Ypres
On Christmas Eve, 1914, the Western Front was a nightmare of mud, barbed wire, and artillery. British and German soldiers crouched in trenches barely a...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9.
On Christmas Eve, 1914, the Western Front was a nightmare of mud, barbed wire, and artillery. British and German soldiers crouched in trenches barely a hundred yards apart near Ypres, Belgium, the earth around them cratered and broken — mountains of soil heaved into the sea of no man's land. The waters of flooded trenches roared with each shell blast.…
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