Hard to believe that it will soon be a hundred years since the outbreak of the Great War.
I always feel quite emotional whenever I think of the Christmas truce, that without any real co-ordination other than the fact that it was Christmas that whole groups of enemies would just down arms and meet each other over the battlefield.
The Generals were furious and threatened dire retaliation on any soldier caught fraternising with the enemy, yet I think if they had been in those trenches, with those men, going through the hell and mud, they would have been just as glad to have one days break from the war as those men were.
There's a film, French made I think, called 'Joyeux Noel' which is set around the time of the truce, I've only seen clips of it on youtube but it looked very well made.
