When the guns fall silent

By Riordan, James

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, Armistices, Grandfathers, Christmas Truce, 1914, Fiction, Reminiscing in old age, Soldiers

Description: Jack Loveless attempts to avert his grandson's questions about his role in World War I by taking him to visit the battlefield graveyards in France. While there he meets a German soldier from the past and vividly remembers the Christmas truce, a miraculous moment when the guns fell silent and horrors of war were temporarily forgotten in a football match.