Christmas doesn’t stop a war, but it does put a bright circle around the date, making the distance from home and loved ones louder. That’s why the 1914 Christmas Truce keeps coming back on screen. For ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...

The Angel of Mons became one of World War One’s most famous legends. During a brutal retreat in 1914, British soldiers claimed supernatural intervention saved them. The story spread quickly, blending ...

Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst‘s Ring of Fire is about the opening salvos of the First World War in 1914. Quickly into Ring, one soon realizes the Lincolnesque sentiment from a 1960s Star ...

It’s 1914. The German plan going into what would become World War I is to rush troops to the west and overwhelm France quickly, before the much larger and more formidable Russia has a chance to ...