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The video for the 1983 song "Pipes of Peace" by Paul McCartney depicts a fictional version of the Christmas truce. [69] John McCutcheon's 1984 song "Christmas in the Trenches" tells the story of the 1914 truce through the eyes of a fictional soldier. [70] Performing the song he met German veterans of the truce. [71]
Truce or ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of any armed conflict. Truce may also refer to: Truce, a 1982 album by Robin Trower and Jack Bruce; Truce (group), British R&B trio in the 1990s "Truce" (song), a 1998 song by Jars of Clay "Truce" (Tom Robinson song), on the 1982 album Cabaret '79
A hudna (from the Arabic هدنة meaning "calm" or "quiet") is a truce or armistice. [1] It is sometimes translated as "cease-fire". In his medieval dictionary of classical Arabic, the Lisan al-Arab, Ibn Manzur defined it as: "hadana: he grew quiet. hadina: he quieted (transitive or intransitive). haadana: he made peace with.
The violations of the 2006 truce allowed Hezbollah to strengthen its forces tremendously, while Israel gathered intelligence on the militant group that would prove to be a game-changer in the 2024 ...
A ceasefire (also known as a truce), [1] also spelled cease-fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), [2] is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions often due to mediation by a third party. [3] [4] Ceasefires may be between state actors or involve non-state actors. [1]
"Christmas in the Trenches" is a ballad from John McCutcheon's 1984 album Winter Solstice. It tells the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce between the British and German lines on the Western Front during the Great War from the perspective of a fictional British soldier.
The ceasefire came after an hourslong delay during which at least 19 people were killed in Gaza, according to the enclave's Civil Defense agency, as Israeli forces continued to attack parts of the ...
The truce excluded the I Corp and from the Vinh city of the North to the military line at the 17th parallel north. The ceasefire began on schedule, but was short-lived. Soon after midnight on the 29th, the Liberation Army of South Vietnam forces attacked key towns and installations in the truce's excluded zone of the southern I Corps. [6]