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Artefacts

All quiet on the Western Front—Christmas 1914

In the rush to arms, many politicians and soldiers believed that the war would be ‘over by Christmas’. With the failure of the German Schlieffen plan to defeat the allies, however, the armies on the Western Front quickly became bogged down, and all sides took to the trenches. When Christmas 1914 actually arrived, the event … Read more

Categories Artefacts, Issue 6 (November/December 2014), Volume 22

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