Silent Night Quotes

“On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition—not to determine who was right, but who was left.”
― Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914

“A future general, Captain Jack of the Cameronians, averse to the truce when on the line, had speculated in his diary a few days earlier, in almost Shavian fashion, about the larger implications of the cease-fire, which had extended farther than governments conceded, "It is interesting to visualize the close of a campaign owing to the opposing armies--neither of them defeated--having become too friendly to continue the fight.”
― Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914

“Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars—for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family.”
― Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914