"We are having the most extraordinary Christmas Day imaginable. A sort of unarranged and quite unauthorized but perfec…"

"It remains one human episode amid all the atrocities which have stained the memory of the war."

"[A] ball appeared from somewhere, I don’t know where, but it came from their side… They made up some goals and one fe…"

"I think on Christmas Eve, we'd been singing carols and this that and the other, and the Germans had been doing the sa…"

"We got orders come down the trench, "Get back in your trenches every man", by word of mouth down each trench; "Everyb…"

"The armistice was an event of significance for those involved, even if its contemporaneous meaning was not the defian…"

"Deck the halls with boughs of holly. 'Tis the season to be jolly. Don we now our gay apparel. Troll the ancient yulet…"

"If you're happy and you know it clap your hands"

"If you're happy and you know it stomp your feet"

"If you're happy and you know it shout "Hooray!""