The Christmas truce
Duffy, Carol Ann, 1955-2014
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Following in the tradition of 'Mrs Scrooge' and 'Another Night Before Christmas', Carol Ann Duffy offers us another charming and original festive poem. Down at the front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man. Carol Ann duffy's beautiful and moving poem celebratest the miraculous truce between the trenches, when enemy shook hands with enemy, shared songs, swapped gifts and even played football.
Main title:
The Christmas truce / Carol Ann Duffy ; illustrated by David Roberts.
Author:
Duffy, Carol Ann, 1955-Roberts, David, 1970-, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2014.
Collation:
48 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2011.
ISBN:
9781447218449 (hbk)1447218442
Dewey class:
821.9'2821.92
Language:
English
BRN:
899140
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