Christmas Truce - Legacy

Legacy

• Stanley Weintraub's 2002 book Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.
• Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914 by Michael C. Snow (2009) ISBN 978-1-61623-080-7
• Michael Foreman's 1993 children's book War Game
• The truce is dramatized in the 2005 French film Joyeux Noël (English: Merry Christmas), depicted through the eyes of French, Scottish and German soldiers. The film, written and directed by Christian Carion, was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
• It is also dramatized in "The Good Show" episode of the WNYC radio show Radiolab.
• Acoustic rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, Bread and Roses's song "Boxing Day 1914" tells a first-person historical fictional story of a WWI veteran remembering the truce.
• British folk singer Mike Harding related the story in his song "Christmas 1914".
• The 1967 Royal Guardsman song "Snoopy's Christmas" is loosely based on the Christmas Truce.
• American folk singer John McCutcheon, in his song "Christmas in the Trenches".
• American country music singer Garth Brooks, in his song "Belleau Wood".
• The truce provided the basis for "All Together Now", a 1990 song by The Farm which has become a football anthem.
• In the Christmas episode "River of Stars" from the Fox series Space: Above and Beyond, Joel Delafuente's character narrates the 1914 Christmas truce. He juxtaposes the event against the fact that over the next three years the war became, what was then, the costliest in human history.
• In the Christmas episode "Secret Santa" from the syfy series Warehouse 13, Eddie McClintock's character narrates a brief summary of the 1914 truce in regards to an artifact from the truce having made its way into the future and causing havoc.
• The video for Paul McCartney's 1983 song "Pipes of Peace" was set during the Christmas truce.