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History: Fact and Fiction - World War I Christmas Truce

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  1. Silent Night: the story of the World War I Christmas truce by Stanley Weintraub (2001). Also available in Large Print
  2. Joyeux Noel / Merry Christmas directed by Christian Carion (2005) DVD or on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8vp-i3k3Xs
  3. Shooting at the Stars: the Christmas truce of 1914 by John Hendrix (2014)

    4. Want to get to watch some historical info to go with the books? Then try these!

    • Timeline by HistoryHit.TV host (50 minute video suitable for adults) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCRjN6qqgHc
    • Extra History episode 1: WWI Christmas Truce - Silent Night (11 minute video suitable for children) thttps://youtu.be/WUlPNWDvk-c

      • More books available in NC Cardinal:

      Adult Nonfiction

      • Christmas Truce By The Men Who Took Part: letters from the 1914 ceasefire on the Western Front by Mike Hill (2021)
      • The Christmas Truce: myth, memory, and the First World War by Terri Blom Crocker (University of Kentucky Press, 2015)
      • Tommy’s War: the Western Front in soldiers’ words and photographs by Richard Van Emden (2014)
      • World War I: the definitive visual history: from Sarajevo to Versailles by R. G. Grant (DK Smithsonian, 2014, 2018)

        • Adult Nonfiction DVD

        • World War I, the Great War (four volume DVD set)

          • Adult Fiction

          • The Orange Lilies by Nathan Goodwin (2014)
          • Gifts of War by Mackenzie Ford (2008)

            • Juvenile Nonfiction

            • Silent Night, Holy Night: the story of the Christmas Truce  by Stephen Wunderli (2003)
            • The Christmas Truce of 1914 by Thomas Steissguth (2016)
            • And the Soldiers Sang by Patrick Lewis (2011) (EZ holiday or JNF)
            • Truce: the day the soldiers stopped fighting by Jim Murphy (2009)
            • World War I by Steven Otfinoski (2017) - has a chapter on it

              • Juvenile Fiction

              • Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon (JF or EZ Fiction)
              • War Game by Michael Foreman (1993) (JF)

                • Juvenile DVD

                • War Game DVD starring Kate Winslet, Colin McFarlane, etc. (2004) - based on Michael Foreman’s book
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