Oct 1, 2009 · Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I. On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south.

Oct 1, 2009 · Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy is a non-fiction book about the Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War One. Jim Murphy starts the book by writing about how the war started and showing how the whole conflict could've been avoided.

Apr 26, 2016 · Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I. On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south.

On December 25, 1914, a Christmas miracle occurred all along the Western Front as hundreds of thousands of soldiers simply decided, despite direct orders to the contrary, that they were not going to fight. The text contains graphic photos.

Apr 26, 2016 · Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I. On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south.

Apr 26, 2016 · Jim Murphy was the celebrated author of more than thirty-five books for young readers, most notably Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting and The Great Fire, a Newbery Honor Winner....

Dec 10, 2009 · Jim Murphy, historian extraordinaire, breaks it down for the kids and delivers a painful but ultimately strangely hopeful encapsulation of a moment in time that was admirable in its unlikelihood.

Instead, its focus—the Christmas truce that occurred along Western Front trenches in 1914—leaves readers with hope in the human spirit and a sense of the folly and futility of the …

Dec 11, 2012 · Jim Murphy has a real gift for explaining history in his well-researched, totally accessible book about how the enemy soldiers stopped fighting in the middle of a war and celebrated Christmas together. And as he points out, the truce wasn't quite as spontaneous as we have been led to believe.

Mar 17, 2011 · Truce by Jim Murphy Scholastic Press, New York, 2009. 116 pages. Starred Review Jim Murphy’s book is an excellent introduction to World War I. With photographs and maps, and quotations from firsthand sources he explains the basics of why the war began and all the countries involved. Then he talks about the trenches: