Silent Night: the Story of World War I's Christmas Truce

Weintraub, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684872811 ISBN 13: 9780684872810

Publisher: Free Press, 2001

From an acclaimed historian and National Book Award finalist comes the poignant story of World War I's 1914 Christmas truce--the spontaneous and tantalizingly brief moment when mortal enemies came together as friends. photos. Illustrations.

Review:

Robert Cowleyfounding editor of "MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History," and editor of "No End Save Victory: Perspectives on World War II" Stanley Weintraub's poignant account of the day one of the worst of wars took a holiday sounds like the stuff of fiction, but it was the sort of event that fiction can only imitate. No wonder that his book reads like a novel, a true story that has the power to haunt.

About the Author:

Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University and the author of numerous histories and biographies, including MacArthur's War, Long Day's Journey into War and A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War. Weintraub is a book reviewer for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania.