Christmas in the Trenches
2/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The outbreak of war in 1914 was greeted with euphoria by many in Europe, and it was widely believed that the conflict would be ‘over by Christmas’. In the event, millions of men were destined to spend the first of four seasons away from their families and loved ones. Amid the shortages, tedium and dangers of life in the trenches, those at ‘the sharp end’ remained determined to celebrate Christmas as a time of comradeship and community, a time when war could be set aside, if only for a day. Unlike the famous Christmas truce of 1914, the Christmas experiences in other years of the war and on other fronts have received scant attention. Alan Wakefield has trawled the archives of the Imperial War Museum, National Archives and National Army Museum to provide a fascinating selection of first-hand accounts of the six wartime Christmases of the First World War.
Related to Christmas in the Trenches
Related ebooks
Christmas in the Trenches Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The True Story of the Christmas Truce: British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cold War Warriors: The Story of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire), 1959-1994 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ironbridge in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo So Few -The Trial Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHigh Wood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Home Front: Deepening Conflict Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBook of the Poppy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Folkestone in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOxfordshire: Remembering 1914-18 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stafford in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders, 1914/1918 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Boston in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters from the Light Brigade: The British Cavalry in the Crimean War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Eloquent Soldier: The Peninsular War Journals of Lieutenant Charles Crowe of the Inniskillings, 1812-14 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Logistics in World War II, 1939–1943 Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5And the World Went Dark: An Illustrated Interpretation of the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPyramids and Fleshpots: The Egyptian, Senussi and Eastern Mediterranean Campaigns, 1914 - 16 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Somme 1916: A Battlefield Companion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hull Commercials: A History of the 10th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA German Deserter's War Experiences: Fighting for the Kaiser in the First World War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Colonel Strutt's Daring Royal Mission: The Secret British Rescue of the Habsburg Family, 1919 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreat Battles of the Great War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slaughter on the Somme 1 July 1916: The Complete War Diaries of the British Army's Worst Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBully Beef & Biscuits: Food in the Great War Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Guide to War Publications of the First & Second World War: From Training Guides to Propaganda Posters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Billericay in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVolunteers: The Incredible Story of Kitchener's Army Through Soldiers' and Civilians' Own Words and Photographs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Home Front: Final Blows and the Year of Victory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCall To Arms Over By Christmas: Outbreak of War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Christmas in the Trenches
3 ratings0 reviews