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Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting

Jim Murphy

3.97 · Rating details · 832 ratings · 215 reviews

Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I.
On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south. What followed was like a row of falling dominoes as one European coun ...more

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Dec 21, 2017 Melki rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ho-ho-ho, history, war

'Twas Christmas in the trenches, where the frost so bitter hung,
The frozen fields of France were still, no Christmas song was sung
Our families back in England were toasting us that day
Their brave and glorious lads so far away.*

The Western Front, 1914

Here two parallel trenches --- one held by the Germans, the other by the French, English, and Belgians --- from fifty to one thousand yards apart stretched from the North Sea coast all the way to the Swiss border, a total of over 475 miles. In betwee ...more

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Nov 01, 2009 Betsy rated it it was amazing

If your history classes in school were anything like mine, then this is how a typical year would go: Lots of Revolutionary War, lots of Civil War, oh no it's almost the end of the year so let's just skip to WWII, and finally a brief smattering of Vietnam. WWI got the short end of the stick year after year after year when I was growing up. In fact, by the time I graduated from high school I associated only a couple vague images with it: mustard gas, red poppies, and All Quiet On The Western Front If your history classes in school were anything like mine, then this is how a typical year would go: Lots of Revolutionary War, lots of Civil War, oh no it's almost the end of the year so let's just skip to WWII, and finally a brief smattering of Vietnam. WWI got the short end of the stick year after year after year when I was growing up. In fact, by the time I graduated from high school I associated only a couple vague images with it: mustard gas, red poppies, and All Quiet On The Western Front. Now mine was a particularly silly education, but I worry about kids today. Surely I'm not the only person who went through this. So what do you hand a ten-year-old who wants a really good book on WWI, and also wants it to explain how it happened? There are full-fledged adults operating in the world right now that haven't a clue about who or what Franz Ferdinand was (aside from a contemporary band). I guess what I love so much about Jim Murphy's Truce is that it not only talks about the famous and spontaneous truce between two opposing sides that happened around Christmas Day in 1914, but the author also takes the time to put the whole war into context without wasting so much as a word. This can only be described as senselessness synthesized.

It was considered a bit of a Christmas miracle at the time. A sprawling war, two sides taught to hate one another, and then . . . peace. Apropos of nothing, troops put down their weapons and met in No Man's Land to exchange gifts, sing songs, and play games. But how did it happen? To understand that is to understand WWI within context. Its causes, key players, and ultimately how it ended. Jim Murphy, historian extraordinaire, breaks it down for the kids and delivers a painful but ultimately strangely hopeful encapsulation of a moment in time that was admirable in its unlikelihood. A Time Line, Notes and Sources, additional bibliography, and index are included.

If WWII is "the good war" then WWI's the one we like to try to surreptitiously slip behind our backs. It doesn't have any of the iconography of its successor, nor the sheer black and white of the good and evil of the time. Maybe that's why there aren't that many children's books about it. Truce works as well as it does because it not only clarifies the confusing details (Franz Josef knowing full well that the Serbs weren't behind the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, for example) but also because he's created a narrative for the war. It was dumb as all get out. Not a reason in the world to justify it, really, and the sheer amount of blood spilt is enough to turn your head. Truce is history plus interest for the middle grade non-fiction reader not yet ready for three hundred page tomes.

Even the chapter headings are interesting. They have great titles like "Those Stupid Kings and Emperors" and "Things Were Beginning to Look Unpleasant" which more often than not come from direct quotes of the time. Murphy also gives a human face to the drama. I like to think that he also does a great job of showing how similar the two sides were, particularly when it comes to their commanding officers. When the truce broke out, commanders on both sides were livid. The English would avoid similar Christmas truces in the future with continual artillery barrages. Corporal Adolf Hitler said of it, "Such a thing should never happen in wartime. Have you no German sense of honor left at all?" I think that part of the reason Truce stands out amongst its fellows is that it shows both sides continually. The photographs are taken by both sides. The quotations and memories too. And we even see how nasty propaganda demonizing the enemy was used by opposing countries prior to the war to get the populace involved.

The natural fictional pairing with this book is Michael Foreman's War Game: Village Green to No-Man's-Land. A less immediate association, but no less apt, is Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan. Though ostensibly a kind of Steampunk novel, Westerfeld's book would be a great read after Truce once kids understand the characters and want to hear about them in a fictional setting. Plus, now that they have the rudimentary causes of the war under their belts, they'll be able to better understand historical fiction novels about that time period.

The fact of the matter is, it was a stupid war that killed a lot of people. Murphy even goes so far as to show how it helped sow the seeds that led to WWII. That makes it all the crazier that it was started by just a few guys, and could have been cut off if personalities had been different or if they'd listened to their enlisted men and stopped it after that first Christmas. Truce, when you get right down to it, is a sad story. One of the most touching moments in the book is when you read the words of a British private who greeted a German in No Man's Land. "The first man I came to was an old man, and when we shook hands I thought he was not going to let my hand go. The tears came rolling down his cheeks, and I felt sorry for him as he was so old, and wanted to go home." He could have. As Major Murdoch McKenzie Wood would later say, "it was only the fact that we were being controlled by others that made it necessary for us to start trying to shoot one another again." A great introduction to WWI and undeniably the best book for kids on the subject I've ever seen. And it'll break your heart in the bargain.

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Aug 13, 2013 Julie Suzanne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonfiction-reading-to-learn, war

While this book is in the Juvenile section of the library, I have to say it's the best book on WWI (or any war) that I've ever read. The causes and consequences of WWI are so much clearer to me; I could probably even carry on a lengthy discussion about it. I have read textbook chapters about WWI both in high school and college, and once I started this text, I felt like I didn't know a THING about it. So, I do recommend this to adults who love history but don't necessarily love reading adult nonf ...more

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Mar 11, 2010 Josiah rated it liked it

Truce isn't primarily a book about World War I. As is often the case in Jim Murphy's books, Truce explains the essential facts that led to the war, but then zeroes in on one unusual section of the war that was strikingly memorable, and makes it the focus of the book. In this case, the unusual occurrence is the almost unexplainably widespread truce between the British and German soldiers which took place in the battle zone of the Western Front on Christmas Eve and Day of 1914.

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Nov 14, 2017 Erin rated it really liked it

Reading a nonfiction book when you’re already familiar with much of the content can sometimes grate. I found the manner in which Murphy presented the subject to be engaging and informative. Although there were some points where I felt facts were simplified in ways that left out an important nuance of the events, in general the author presents a balanced depiction of the pressures and prejudices working against Europe at the time. The facts are not dumbed down, but some are slightly simplified fo Reading a nonfiction book when you’re already familiar with much of the content can sometimes grate. I found the manner in which Murphy presented the subject to be engaging and informative. Although there were some points where I felt facts were simplified in ways that left out an important nuance of the events, in general the author presents a balanced depiction of the pressures and prejudices working against Europe at the time. The facts are not dumbed down, but some are slightly simplified for young readers.

Although by necessity for a writer working in English, many of his original sources are British soldiers, he is careful to also include the words of French and German soldiers in both his explanations of the early days of fighting and the actual events on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. He does not fall into the trap that some American writers do of portraying the English as heroes while neglecting the German point of view.

By providing this balanced description of the subject, Murphy furthers central idea of the text. He emphasizes the fact that neither side was right in the conflict, and that soldiers on both sides were the victims of, not one another, but the ambition, narrow thinking and misunderstanding of the impacts of modern warfare of their leaders.

Murphy’s use of photographs and eyewitness accounts enables the reader to see the war not is something that happened a long time ago, but something that impacted real individuals like themselves. I found myself wondering about the young man whose names appeared in the text. I wondered what happened to them. If they survive the war. Making that kind of an emotional connection helped the facts of the book stay with me. There is inherent drama in the horrors of trench warfare, and Murphy captures it without being gruesome.

The story of the Christmas truce on the Western Front continues, more than one hundred years later, to be captivating. The fact that these truces came about, independent of one another, up-and-down the Western Front, without, and in fact in spite of orders from above, make them all the more remarkable ...more

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Nov 05, 2018 Richard rated it it was amazing

This is a Non-Fiction book about the 1914 Christmas Truce in World War One. This book was wrote by Jim Murphy in 2009. There are many surprising and interesting facts that are in the book. Some are funny and some are sad but they are facts. The First World War is a great topic to read and learn about. The title of the book hints at what the book will mainly be about. The author gave great and clear details about specific things such as what they wore and what they did down the fronts. Here is a ...more

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Dec 11, 2012 Alex Baugh rated it really liked it

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Truce is a wonderful book that not only tells the story of the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War I, but also gives a coherent, thorough history of the events leading up to the hostilities and just what those terrible first months of war was like in the trenches.

The fact is that most of us don't really remember World War I from our high school history days. And I know I never learned that World War I could have and almost was prevented. So I can honestly say that I (re)learned Truce is a wonderful book that not only tells the story of the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War I, but also gives a coherent, thorough history of the events leading up to the hostilities and just what those terrible first months of war was like in the trenches.

The fact is that most of us don't really remember World War I from our high school history days. And I know I never learned that World War I could have and almost was prevented. So I can honestly say that I (re)learned a lot reading Truce. Jim Murphy has a real gift for explaining history in his well-researched, totally accessible book about how the enemy soldiers stopped fighting in the middle of a war and celebrated Christmas together. And as he points out, the truce wasn't quite as spontaneous as we have been led to believe.

Murphy explains that there are two sides to trench warfare - the fighting side and the boring side. The fighting side was basically barbaric, with soldiers charging across a No Man's Land towards the enemy and the enemy mowing them down with all kinds of artillery, including machine guns. The boring side was waiting in the trenches for the next charge or counter charge. But, although carnage was taking place on the battlefield, newspapers were publishing stories about victory, causing enlistment offices to be packed with men want to enlist.

The fighting was horrible as were the conditions in the trenches. The soldiers were plagued not only by bullets and grenades, but also by "nonmiliitary dangers," like swarms of hungry rats, lice and fleas in their clothing, bedding and food. And sometimes these can be just a bad.

But sometimes, Murphy writes, when it was quite the soldiers of one side could hear the soldiers on the other side talking, singing, playing music. Then they began to contact each other from across No Man's Land, exchanging greetings, remarks, even food.

And so, when Christmas came and the men received cards and parcels from home, on both sides of No Man's Land, they were feeling mellow and friendly. The rest is history...

While the main focus of Truce is on the events leading up to war and the truce of Christmas 1914, Murphy also includes a brief history of the rest of the war and the subsequent conditions Germany was subjected to when they surrendered. Murphy has written a nicely detailed, well-rounded history, just graphic enough for the intended middle grade reader. It will hold their interest without turning them off. Truce is very well documented, and includes maps, photographs, a timeline, notes and sources - in other words, all those things that make an informational text really creditable and user-friendly. I particularly liked the list of books, poetry, movies and websites where the reader can go to learn more about World War I.

One of the things I have always wondered about was why the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War II has become the subject for lots of fiction. Well, I found my answer in this well-researched, well-written book. The Western Front was a lot longer than I had ever imagined - two parallel trenches ran 475 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border, separated by a No Man's Land tangled up with barbed wire. On the eastern side of the front was the German trench, on the western side were the Allied troops from Britain, France and Belgium. 475 miles means that not everyone could have experienced the truce in the same way, leaving it wide open to the imagination.

What a great book!

This book is recommended for readers age 8+
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Nov 16, 2014 Joe Radtke rated it it was amazing

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy is a non-fiction book about the Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War One. Jim Murphy starts the book by writing about how the war started and showing how the whole conflict could've been avoided. The anger that lead to the war started when an Austrian-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand when assassinated by a Serbian National. Now this was especially bad because he was the heir to the throne and the Austrian-Hungarians already hated
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy is a non-fiction book about the Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War One. Jim Murphy starts the book by writing about how the war started and showing how the whole conflict could've been avoided. The anger that lead to the war started when an Austrian-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand when assassinated by a Serbian National. Now this was especially bad because he was the heir to the throne and the Austrian-Hungarians already hated the Serbians. However the Emperor of Austria-Hungry Franz Josef disliked the Arch Duke and was pleased with the assassination but his advisors were outraged so they convinced the emperor to send an unreasonable list of demands to the Serbians in order to avoid war but before they did this they mobilized there army and made an alliance with Germany. The Serbians agreed to all of the demands except for one that was fairly on important to the Austrian-Hungarians. However when Franz Josef heard they denied the demands he sent the order to strike when he received the exact details he regretted the choice but it was too late World War One had started. Christmas arrived that year and by that many soldiers on both sides didn't see the point to the war. They were tired of fighting and wanted desperately to go home. So on Christmas of 1914 both sides had a cease fire to celebrate Christmas with one another. It was a celebration unimaginable. Armies who yesterday were killing each other were now exchanging gifts. The truce didn't last long because the next day when high ranking officers heard of the phenomena they were outraged and demanded the resuming of fighting. Jim Murphy writes in Truce “What would happen if both sides just laid down their weapons” The Christmas Truce answers that question.
I would recommend this book to my friends because it provides many perspectives on World War One and provides historical information in an interesting and organized way.
Me: Franz Josef do you feel that World War One was necessary?
Franz Josef: That is an interesting question I feel that the conflict could have been avoided if my advisors would have been more reluctant to attack the Serbs.
Me: How do you feel about the Christmas Truce of 1914?
Franz Josef: It is outrageous the solders never should have disobeyed their officer’s orders.
Me: What was the point of World War One?
Franz Josef: To prove to the Serbians and the rest of the world the might of Austria-Hungry
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Jun 02, 2010 Rebecca rated it it was amazing

Shelves: gift-books, nonfiction, age-middle-school

I know, I'm too liberal with my 5-star ratings, but boy have I been reading some good stuff lately. This was unintentionally the perfect nonfiction follow-up to Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. Westerfeld's book, though it was an alternate history, still taught me more about what set off World War I than I remember learning in school, and Murphy's book fleshes out the reality magnificently, with maps, photos, drawings, first-person quotes, a timeline, notes & sources, additional resources, and ind ...more

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Oct 14, 2009 Missy rated it really liked it

I've never known much about WWI. I liked this book - a children's book, so it was in layman's terms and easy to understand - but it gave a feel for the horrors of war without being graphic. I am going to share some quotes from the book that impacted me. I guess I should say *spoiler alert* in case I'm giving something away.

The story of the Christmas truce is one I was vaguely familiar with, but I didn't realize that the truce didn't end on Dec. 26. In some areas, it continued for months. In one ...more

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Nov 15, 2017 Rebecca Leedham rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonficton

I have never been one to enjoy history books. Although this may have been mostly because of the texts that were presented to me in my K-12 days, it has stuck with me through the majority of college. Truce, however, was a history book that I finally found myself completely intrigued by. This book is the story of Christmas in World War One. Men on both sides were miserably fighting and circumstances were getting worse and worse. The war was gory and each side had leaders that wanted it to continue ...more

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Nov 05, 2018 Kirsten rated it liked it

Shelves: gr-8-semester-1

I've never done a review for nonfiction before, so apologies if this turns out really, really bad.
I never read much nonfiction, and this was hard for me to read. The first half was so boring, and I found it very hard to read because it was just spewing facts after facts, and there was nothing to grab attention (for me, at least). Then, when the Christmas Truce came, it really picked up, and I found myself sort of liking hearing about the soldier's lives and all.
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Jun 01, 2019 Kirsten rated it liked it

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Aug 21, 2013 Moe rated it really liked it

Shelves: summer-reading, 8th-grade, non-fiction-i-actually-spent-time-o

Usually, when I read non-fiction I don't do it willingly. This book was different. I never knew that the famous 1st World War had a good, touching, part to it. I think everyone should read this book, because I believe that peace is the answer instead of war. I also believe that everyone has a good part to them, just waiting to shine. This book taught not only about climax of the war, but also the little steps that built up to WW1. I might take up some more non-fiction after this great piece of l ...more

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Mar 29, 2014 Debby rated it it was amazing

Shelves: middle-school-gr-5-8, non-fiction

An excellent book about the Christmas truce of 1914. Confirms my belief that most people want to live in peace if you can keep the leaders/governments out of it. Very well-written.

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Dec 06, 2017 Jodi rated it really liked it

Shelves: school-2017-18, history, read-alouds, christmas-advent, wwi, europe, give-your-child-the-world

We gained so much understanding from this book. Using many firsthand accounts derived from diary entries and other written sources, this book tells the story of the events leading up to the Great War and the miraculous Christmas truce of 1914.

How tragic, and how senseless, this loss of life and destruction of villages, landscapes, families, generations, and nations. How horrifying to be forced to fight an enemy you have learned is just like you--a human being, with thoughts and feelings and fami ...more

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May 16, 2018 Barbara rated it liked it

Shelves: compassion, peace, death, empathy, families, kindness, friendship, history, jobs, music

It has been said that politics makes strange bedfellows, and sadly, war makes enemies out of individuals who might otherwise have found some commonalities had they met under different circumstances. It is no great secret that the men who enlist or are drafted during wartime often serve their countries out of a desire to defend their nation and its causes, but that sometimes it isn't clear just why they are fighting. So it was in WWI, the war that was supposed to end all others. The death toll in ...more

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Nov 27, 2018 Marcos Perez rated it really liked it

Shelves: picture-books, young-adult, chapter-book, non-fiction

Truce: the day the soldiers stopped fighting is a chapter book that describes what led to the escalation and what eventually led to the conflict of World War I. It zeros in on one specific event that occurred around Christmas time of 1914. This book is written in the third person point of view which takes a bit of credibility away since it is not written by a person who actually experienced the events that are presented in the book. However, there are a few primary accounts scattered around the ...more

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Sep 25, 2017 Amanda Ivany added it

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Everyone has heard about WWI but, the story of when the fighting stopped shows a side of war often forgotten for those who have been distanced from it. Truce is set during WWI but the main story is set at the trenches bordering No Mans Land, Christmas of 1914. Truce has won: 2010 Notable Book for a Global Society, Editor’s Choice, ALA Notable Book for Children, ALA’s BBYA Best Book for Young Adults, NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Title, Junior Literary Guild Selection, Booklist Best Books of 2009 ...more

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Jun 01, 2017 Abdullahi Abdi rated it it was amazing

I rate this book 5/5 because it talks about how world war one started. And people who love history and wars should give this book. A try the book talks about how people died in the trenches and the struggles people went through during the war. And how they tired to survive in the trenches and getting shot at. And more about world war 1 I liked this Book because i'm a guy who loves history and big events that happened in the world.And I was really interested in this book because I wanted to know ...more

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Nov 30, 2017 Denise rated it really liked it

Non-fiction children's book about the various truces during Christmas 2014, WWI. Murphy does a nice job setting up the reasons (or lack of them) for the war. The direct quotes from soldiers lend authenticity and immediacy to the story. If only the regular soldiers and not the commanders were in charge, the world might be a different place.

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But most higher-ranking officers felt the business of war had to go on.

The peace was indeed a very fragile one.

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Dec 17, 2019 Becki rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, history, middle-grade

I have long been vaguely familiar with the truce on Christmas Day during the first year of World War I. Some Christmas songs mention it, and that's where my knowledge has come from, no doubt. In listening to an audiobook set during WWI, I came across the mention of the truce once again. This inspired me to seek out more information. Hence, reading this book.
I think the book gives a good understanding of both how the war begun as well as the truce. Appropriate for upper elementary students on up. ...more

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Jan 10, 2020 Janet rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: hey-i-m-learning-here, non-fiction

So, I'm seriously geeking out on this whole 1914 Christmas Truce during WWI thing. This book was a really nice and concise history of that time with great pictures and illustrations.

I work at a college and I always tell my students that if they want great background information on a subject that they are researching or need to write a paper about, that the best place to start is with juvenile non-fiction. It gives you the simple facts and tells you all you need to know to get started. I only wi ...more

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May 26, 2017 James Blevins rated it it was amazing

Truce was one of the best books I have ever read. December 25, 1914, the western front of world war 1.
Death and chaos stretch all along the soldiers' trenches and into no man's land. But on this particular night, on this particular day, on this particular year, the soilders of the western front decided they didn't want to kill any one anymore for some poloticians. So they had a christmas truce and played games and ate food for months. This was a great book. A masterpiece.

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Jan 07, 2018 Loralee rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-with-kids, ww1

I got this for Cameron to read and I think it was probably a little too detailed for him right now. He read it and said he liked it, but didn't have a lot to say about it. I think most of it maybe went over his head a little bit. I think I'll have him come back to it in a few years. Really, really good intro to WWI though. It really focuses on how the war began and each country's involvement in the war.

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Dec 03, 2018 Jack rated it liked it

Shelves: 8th-grade-semester-1

I very much enjoyed Truce by Jim Murphy. Before I read this book I knew nothing about the great war(WW1). This book provides a great context of the Great War. During this book, I was able to read about different parts of the war through the authentic pictures, facts, and quotes. Compared to other nonfiction books this book kept me reading. Personally, I am very busy so I do not have the time to read. However, this book was very short so I was able to read this book despite my schedule. If you a ...more

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May 04, 2017 Aubrey Hitt rated it it was amazing

Shelves: reading-648-non-fiction

I am obsessed with the illustrations in this book. It is beautiful and I think it captures the sweetness of the day amidst the darkness of the time. I love reading about the special day when troops from opposing sides decide to come together to celebrate. I know this would be great for elementary students to show kindness among such difficult and hard times.

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Nov 29, 2018 Mateo rated it really liked it

Shelves: grade-8

Truce is a good book and I actually read it because I was doing a scrapbook on this topic and decided to read it for more info. Reading this book gave me a lot of info about it and I was able to make a better scrapbook because of it. I believe that if you are doing a project or just would like to know the topic better this could be a good book for you.

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Jul 31, 2017 Dana Van Aert rated it it was amazing

Extremely well put together. It breaks down world war I and explains how the "Christmas Truce" got its beginnings. This book will change your perspective of World War I and help you discover that we are all human; we may be a lot closer to our "enemies" than we think.

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An American author of more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for his contribution in writing for teens. Jim lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, in a hundred-year-old house with his wife Alison Blank, a children’s TV produce ...more