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The Christmas truce

It鈥檚 Christmas day in Belgium, 1914, and life in the trenches is the definition of misery. But for one beautiful, spontaneous moment, peace and football replaces the fighting.

The deafening roar of shells exploding, a cacophony of bullets whizzing past, the air thick with smoke. This is Belgium, 1914 and life in the trenches for British and German soldiers is the definition of misery. But for one beautiful, spontaneous moment, peace and football replaces the fighting with a Christmas Truce. This is the story of what happened that day in no man's land on the Western Front during World War One.

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