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Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
Stanley Weintraub
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History is peppered with oddments and ironies, and one of the strangest is this. A few days before the first Christmas of that long bloodletting then called the Great War, hundreds of thousands of cold, trench-bound combatants put aside their arms and, in defiance of their orders, tacitly agreed to stop the killing in honor of the holiday.

That informal truce began with small acts: here opposing Scottish and German troops would toss newspapers, ration tins, and friendly remarks across the lines; there ambulance parties, clearing the dead from the barbwire hell of no man's land, would stop to share cigarettes and handshakes. Soon it spread, so that by Christmas Eve the armies of France, England, and Germany were serenading each other with Christmas carols and sentimental ballads and denouncing the conflict with cries of "Á bas la guerre!" and "Nie wieder Krieg!" The truce was, writes Stanley Weintraub, a remarkable episode, and, though "dismissed in official histories as an aberration of no consequence," it was so compelling that many who observed it wrote in near-disbelief to their families and hometown newspapers to report the extraordinary event.

In the end, writes Weintraub, the truce ended with a few stray bullets that escalated into total war, and that would fill the air for just shy of four more Christmases to come; further, isolated attempts at informal peacemaking would fail. But what, Weintraub wonders at the close of this inspired study, would have happened if the soldiers on both sides had refused to take up arms again? His counterfactual scenarios are intriguing, and well worth pondering. -- Gregory McNamee

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The Truce at Bakura (Star Wars)
Kathy Tyers
$1.99

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No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost. Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first to meet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaders who, once allied with the now dead Emperor, are approaching Imperial space with only one goal; total domination. Princess Leia sees the mission as an opportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for the Alliance. But it assumes even greater importance when a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke Skywalker with the message that he must go to Bakura-or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought so desperately to achieve.

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Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914 (Pan Grand Strategy Series)
Shirley Seaton
$5.27

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During Christmas 1914, in a war already famous for its horror and brutality, enemy shook hands with enemy in No Man's Land, exchanged souvenirs, even played football. The truce between the trenches extended over at least two-thirds of the British line and there were similar cease-fires in the French and Belgian sectors. In some areas the peaceable mood lingered well into 1915. Originally published in 1984, this book is one of the finest accounts ever assembled on one of the most overlooked stories of World War I.

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Blood Truce (Wilderness, No 16)
David Thompson
$1.65

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Determined to help the white trappers and traders who are under constant threat of attack, Nathaniel King sets out to help them and becomes involved in a deadly dispute among rival tribes. Original.

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If This Is a Man and The Truce
Primo Levi
$9.78

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'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' PHILIP ROTH

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Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
Marianne Kirby
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The Truce Of God
Rowan Williams
$3.94

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In an arrangement known as "the truce of God," the medieval monastery of Cluny encouraged its feuding neighbors to restrict warfare to three days of the week. Centuries later, violence has scarcely receded from public life, with new acts of brutality and injustice reported almost daily. Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," and while his followers today may find quaint the medieval attempt at peace, Christians must continue to rise to the challenge of peacemaking.

In this freshly updated edition, The Truce of God speaks anew to the realities of life in a terror-filled world. Treating war and peace as spiritual rather than merely political issues, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, perceptively diagnoses the problem in theological terms. He begins by probing the religious dimensions of our inner fears as exposed by popular "catastrophe" films and fictions. He goes on to ask candid questions about the implications of seeing violence as something that ordinary human beings never decide to do but are forced into. Finally, Archbishop Williams reclaims the Christian sense that peace requires a decision to live as a new community rather than returning to some sort of natural harmony. Discussion questions at the book’s end help to make his observations an excellent basis for small group study.

Marked by the humane wisdom for which Archbishop Williams is well known, The Truce of God is a nourishing, hope-filled book that will amply reward all who read it.

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Truce Tent And Fighting Front: United States Army in the Korean War
Walter G. Hermes
$37.50

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The Korean war was very interesting from many standpoints. It was a war fought with limited objectives where the political process was involved with the fighting. While there was a desire to win, there was the ever present feet that the war could grow to World War III fought with nuclear weapons if the Soviet Union felt her basic interests threatened.

During the last two years of the war, truce talks were being conducted at the same time the war was being fought. Both sides tried with some success to induce more reasonable negotiating attitudes in their adversaries through the application of limited military pressure.

This book is the story of fighting while talking during the last years of the war. It is the official history written by the Army. It was written with access to all of the information available to the Army, except of course classified documents.

Of particular interest to me was following the negotiations. The style of the Communists worked well up against the representatives of a democracy who had political leaders back at home putting constraints on the outcome and journalists reporting everything back to the people. This kind of set the stage for the Viet Nam peace talks much later.

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The Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy
Mary Gould Davis
$349.00

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Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura
Kathleen M. Tyers
$6.35

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