SILENT NIGHT: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914.
de WEINTRAUB, STANLEY:
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- First
- Estado
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0684866218
- ISBN 13
- 9780684866215
- Librería
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PLYMOUTH., Devon, United Kingdom
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black+ blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,xiv-xvipp+2-238pp [paginated] includes an introduction,7 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w illus and b/w photographs in 1 block, between pp112/13, sources,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] a b/w illustrated half-title page,title page,a dedication, contents list/table,author epigram,double page b/w map (Western Front,Christmas 1914) and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
'Silent Night' brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war.The First World War had been underway for only a few months but had already been stalemated into the brutality of trench warfare.As Christmas approached,men on both sides - Germans,British, Belgians and French - laid down their arms and joined together in a spontaneous celebration with their enemy.For a brief,blissful time a world war stopped. In 'Silent Night',Stanley Weintraub has written a beautiful and moving evocation of this astonishing episode in history based on firsthand accounts from both the German and the allied side.He recreates through letters,diaries and unit reports,the gradual lull in hostilities as Christmas approached and then the first tentative overtures as men bravely stood up unarmed as a gesture of peace under the watchful eyes of the snipers. Soldiers lit candles,decorated Christmas trees and serenaded each other with carols.Along the Western Front, troops from both sides ventured out into No Man's Land to exchange gifts and food,smoke,drink and even play football. Stanley Weintraub establishes that between-the-trenches football,which had been thought of an isolated aberration or even a myth,was actually played at many places along the front lines.Never free from the horrors of trench warfare,the truce also gave men the opportunity to bury their dead.The soldiers defied orders,firing harmlessly into the air and warning about artillery barrages they could not stop.But,reluctantly,the truce dissolved as unavoidable pressure from above was brought to bear and the men were forced to re-start history's most horrific war. Stanley Weintraub brilliantly conveys this strange episode, which is also one of the most extraordinary Christmas stories.Tellingly,he also examines what might have happened if the soldiers had been able to continue the truce. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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Sinopsis
In the early months of World War I, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides of the trenches laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. Despite orders to continue shooting, the unofficial truce spread across the front lines. Even the participants found what they were doing incredible: Germans placed candlelit Christmas trees on trench parapets, warring soldiers sang carols, and men on both sides shared food parcels from home. They climbed from the trenches to meet in "No Man's Land" where they buried the dead, exchanged gifts, ate and drank together, and even played soccer. Throughout his narrative, Stanley Weintraub uses the stories of the men who were there, as well as their letters and diaries, to illuminate the fragile truce and bring to life this extraordinary moment in time.
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- Librería
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- rja755917
- Título
- SILENT NIGHT: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914.
- Autor
- WEINTRAUB, STANLEY:
- Ilustrador
- illus with contemporary b/w illus and b/w photographs.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - FINE.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- FINE.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0684866218
- ISBN 13
- 9780684866215
- Editorial
- LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER UK Ltd,2001.
- Lugar de publicación
- London, United Kingdom
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- November 5, 2001
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