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ONLINE: The Christmas Day Truce 1914 with Gordon Corrigan

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The presentation will be live and online.  We welcome back Gordon Corrigan who will talk to us about the Christmas Day Truce of 1914. Truces and armistices, brief halts in the fighting, temporary fraternisations, all are as old as warfare. They might be called in order to exchange prisoners, retrieve wounded or bury the dead, or, as in 1914, i...