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Christmas in the Trenches

✍ Scribed by John McCutcheon, Illustrated short stories

Book ID: 111692977
Tongue: English
Weight: 933 KB
Series: Illustrated short stories
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

This moving book about peace, understanding, and unity is based on the real-life World War I event known as the Christmas Truce.

It is cold and clear on Christmas Eve night in 1914. Suddenly, a strange sound pierces the darkness. Someone is singing a Christmas carol in German.

Francis Tolliver and his fellow British soldiers are holed up in muddy trenches along the Western Front. Their enemies—German soldiers—lie in wait just across a field known as "No Man's Land." As the Germans' carol ends, Tolliver and the other British soldiers sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." Soon carols are being sung back and forth. Then a figure emerges in the dark, carrying a small Christmas tree with lighted candles. The British and German soldiers slowly leave their trenches—and the war—behind to stand together in the open field.

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