“We were talking about a cease fire, for Christmas Eve. What do you think?”
The classic tale of the Christmas truce between German, French and Scottish soldiers across the battle fields of World War One. The fleeting brotherhood of the men captures the impressibility of humanity in the most extreme of circumstances.
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