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In 1914 the First World War was entering its first and what many expected to be its only winter. Little did they know the horrors that were to unfold in the years that followed.

As that first war time Christmas approached exactly a century ago, something that would never happen again in the history of warfare occurred, a spontaneous truce broke out and famously in many cases the fighting was replaced by football

Historian Dr Iain Adams from the University of Lancaster explained the truth and myth behind the Christmas Truce of 1914

Photo: The Christmas truce: Drawing is based upon a rifleman's eye-witness account (CREDIT: Hulton Archive)