LEADER 03657nam 2200661 450 001 9910460959703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-7402-3 010 $a0-8131-6665-9 010 $a0-8131-6616-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000485654 035 $a(EBL)4012423 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001580087 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16257736 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001580087 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14123920 035 $a(PQKB)10701867 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001374829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4012423 035 $a(OCoLC)923253240 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47535 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4012423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11116885 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL839276 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000485654 100 $a20150720h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Christmas truce $emyth, memory, and the First World War /$fTerri Blom Crocker ; foreword by Peter Grant 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cUniversity Press of Kentucky,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8131-6615-2 311 $a0-8131-6617-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"A candle lit in the darkness": the Christmas truce and the First World War -- "Absolute hell": the Western Front in 1914 -- "A great day with our enemies": the Christmas truce -- "No war today": the Christmas truce as reported in official war diaries and regimental histories -- "One day of peace at the front": the Christmas truce and the British press -- "That unique and weird Christmas": the Christmas truce during the war -- "The curious Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1920-1959 -- "The famous Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1960-1969 -- "The legendary Christmas truce": the First World War, the Christmas truce, and social history, 1970-1989 -- "Memories of Christmas 1914 persist": orthodoxy, revisionism, and the Christmas truce, 1990-2014 -- "It was peace that won": the Christmas truce and the narrative of the First World War. 330 8 $aThe 1914 Christmas truce, when enemy soldiers met, fraternized, and even played football in No Man's Land during the first year of the First World War, is commonly perceived as a manifestation of the anger that soldiers felt toward the meaningless war that they had been tricked into fighting. Contemporaneous sources, however, show that the truce was not an act of defiance; rather, it arose from the professionalism of the soldiers involved, the conditions of static trench warfare, foul weather on the Western Front, the absence of major battles, and memories of traditional celebrations of Christmas. The truce, in short, was caused by rain, mud, curiosity, lack of personal animosity toward the enemy, and homesickness, rather than by frustration and rebellion. 606 $aChristmas Truce, 1914 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns$zWestern Front 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xArmistices 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristmas Truce, 1914. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xArmistices. 676 $a940.4/21 700 $aCrocker$b Terri Blom$01026420 702 $aGrant$b Peter 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460959703321 996 $aThe Christmas truce$92441305 997 $aUNINA