British and German soldiers emerged from trenches on Christmas Eve, singing carols and meeting in no man's land.
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A grim Christmas story about war, pressure, and the sudden shock of shared humanity.
This Christmas Truce episode pulls a familiar wartime story back into the mud, frost, and exhaustion of the Western Front, where winter and disease matter as much as enemy fire.
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