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Murphy, Jim

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting

116 pp. | Scholastic | October, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-13049-3 $19.99
(2) K-3 The first part of this book sparely and effectively outlines the causes of the Great War. Murphy then moves into a close-up view of the trenches before providing an account of the 1914 Christmas Truce. This historical background gives the truce emotional resonance; the subsequent carnage is all the more sobering in contrast. Plentiful photographs and period illustrations convey the paradoxes well. Reading list, timeline, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2009

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