The Christmas Truce of 1914
Since it has some 14 million views already, I'm guessing most of you have already seen this. But if not, take a few minutes to watch and appreciate it. Sainsbury's partnered with the British Foreign Legion to produce this very fine short that is, yes, a Sainsbury's ad but also a very lovely depiction of the famous episode in 1914 when the Christmas spirit took hold in the trenches and produced a spontaneous truce and friendly mixing in No Man's Land.
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Since it has some 14 million views already, I'm guessing most of you have already seen this. But if not, take a few minutes to watch and appreciate it. Sainsbury's partnered with the British Foreign Legion to produce this very fine short that is, yes, a Sainsbury's ad but also a very lovely depiction of the famous episode in 1914 when the Christmas spirit took hold in the trenches and produced a spontaneous truce and friendly mixing in No Man's Land. As Don Carlin points out in his amazing Hard Core History podcast on WWI (see here and here, too), this was, alas, a prelude before the unprecedented horrors of the war's next year. But, still...
Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
