
When the guns fall silent
World War, 1914-1918GrandfathersReminiscing in old ageSoldiersChristmas Truce, 1914ArmisticesFiction
Jack Loveless attempts to avert his grandson's questions about his role in World War I by taking him to visit the battlefield graveyards in France. While there he meets a German soldier from the past and vividly remembers the Christmas truce, a miraculous moment when the guns fell silent and horrors of war were temporarily forgotten in a football match.
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