When the guns fall silent
By: James Riordan
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780192735706
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Grandfathers; Reminiscing in old age; Soldiers; Christmas Truce, 1914; Armistices; Fiction
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.
Notes: Originally published: 2000.

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