**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

On Christmas Day 1914, amid the bloodily stalemated trenches of Flanders just five months into World War I, a memorable event dubbed the Christmas Truce occurred. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the truce written by soldiers *Includes a bibliography for further reading “It was absolutely astounding, and if I had seen it on a cinematograph film I should have sworn that it was faked!” - Captain Sir Edward Hulse of the Scots Guards on the Christmas Truce (Groom, 2002, 85). In place of the rattle of gunfire and the crash of bursting artillery shells, familiar German and English Christmas carols floated through the frosty air. In a number of sectors, officers and men on both sides emerged from their trenches to mingle, exchange Yuletide greetings, give one another small gifts and mementos, and discuss the fighting as language allowed.