Christmas Truce of 1914
Indeed, war started to become a vengeful and highly impersonal activity. And unlike the Second World War, in which ideological factors were evident to nearly everyone, the Great War was for many a strange, wasteful, and senseless conflict.
The onset of the First World War marked the true beginning of a new era, but it was the Christmas Truce of 1914 that most certainly drew the final curtain on a dying age.
