"Just when he thought he would finally get at his consolation amongst all the misery, two foreign voices rose out of the stony quiet…"
All looked hopeless in the cruel trenches of World War One. The British part of the line had saved a town called Ypres and there they dug in and stayed. Soldiers didn't even dare think of the holidays; they'd been warned not to. War was no place for Christmas. Or was it? The true story of a Scottish World War One soldier and the Christmas Truce of 1914 gathered from numerous accounts and research of one man's witness to a miracle.
"Just when he thought he would finally get at his consolation amongst all the misery, two foreign voices rose out of the stony quiet…"
All looked hopeless in the cruel trenches of World War One. The British part of the line had saved a town called Ypres and there they dug in and stayed. Soldiers didn't even dare think of the holidays; they'd been warned not to. War was no place for Christmas. Or was it? The true story of a Scottish World War One soldier and the Christmas Truce of 1914 gathered from numerous accounts and research of one man's witness to a miracle.