Free Download Pehr Thermaenius, "The Christmas Match: Football in No Man’s Land 1914"
English | 2015 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1910500011 | EPUB | 6,0 mb
On Christmas Eve, 1914, after four months of intense, bloody fighting in Flanders between entrenched British and German soldiers, something miraculous happened. The guns fell silent as Christmas approached, and the soldiers on both sides started singing instead of shooting. Then, on Christmas Day, the two sides emerged from their trenches and met in No Man’s Land. Some chased rabbits. Others, more memorably, played soccer. It was a rare moment of peace-and even beauty-amid horrible carnage.