UNLOCKED - The Christmas Truce of World War I w/ Terri Blom Crocker
American Prestige
English - December 19, 2023 18:59 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 594 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Merry (early) Christmas! Danny and Derek speak with historian Terri Blom Crocker to discuss the reality of the mythologized Christmas Truce of 1914, when soldiers in World War I made various agreements to cease fighting.
Check out Terri's book The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, and the First World War!
Originally published on Christmas 2021
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