Welcome to a new episode of History: Fact and Fiction! If you’ve got a historical topic or person you’d like me to look into in a future episode, just post it in the comments in our social media post on Facebook or Twitter! This series will go on pause for a while, except for big historical anniversaries / holidays, or patron questions that lead to developing a new episode.
- Silent Night: the story of the World War I Christmas truce by Stanley Weintraub (2001). Also available in Large Print
- Joyeux Noel / Merry Christmas directed by Christian Carion (2005) DVD or on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8vp-i3k3Xs
- Shooting at the Stars: the Christmas truce of 1914 by John Hendrix (2014)
Want to get to watch some historical info to go with the books? Then try these!
More books available in NC Cardinal:
Adult Nonfiction
- Christmas Truce By The Men Who Took Part: letters from the 1914 ceasefire on the Western Front by Mike Hill (2021)
- The Christmas Truce: myth, memory, and the First World War by Terri Blom Crocker (University of Kentucky Press, 2015)
- Tommy’s War: the Western Front in soldiers’ words and photographs by Richard Van Emden (2014)
- World War I: the definitive visual history: from Sarajevo to Versailles by R. G. Grant (DK Smithsonian, 2014, 2018)
Adult Nonfiction DVD
- World War I, the Great War (four volume DVD set)
Adult Fiction
- The Orange Lilies by Nathan Goodwin (2014)
- Gifts of War by Mackenzie Ford (2008)
Juvenile Nonfiction
- Silent Night, Holy Night: the story of the Christmas Truce by Stephen Wunderli (2003)
- The Christmas Truce of 1914 by Thomas Steissguth (2016)
- And the Soldiers Sang by Patrick Lewis (2011) (EZ holiday or JNF)
- Truce: the day the soldiers stopped fighting by Jim Murphy (2009)
- World War I by Steven Otfinoski (2017) - has a chapter on it
Juvenile Fiction
- Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon (JF or EZ Fiction)
- War Game by Michael Foreman (1993) (JF)
Juvenile DVD
- War Game DVD starring Kate Winslet, Colin McFarlane, etc. (2004) - based on Michael Foreman’s book
