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Christmas tales: Soldiers through the ages find solace amid the hardships of war, echoing Bing Crosby's timeless song of longing.
"A Soldier's Christmas Letter" is a song performed by British pop singers The Soldiers from their debut studio album Coming Home. It was released on 4 December 2009 serving as the album's second single. It peaked at number 65 on the UK Singles Chart.
The song from the broadcast has appeared in many Bing Crosby compilations. In the midst of World War II, the song touched the hearts of Americans, both soldiers and civilians, and it earned Crosby his fifth gold record. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" became the most requested song at Christmas U.S.O. shows. [6]
"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. Although Francis Tolliver is a fictional character, the event depicted in ...
OKC native Gayla Peevey used her holiday hit "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" to help her hometown zoo buy a real-life hippo 70 years ago.
In an excerpt from his new book Rankin/Bass‘ The Year Without a Santa Claus and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas 50th Anniversary Scrapbook published in Remind Magazine, Goldschmidt quoted ...
The First Silent Night (2014), documentary narrated by Simon Callow [27] Stille Nacht – ein Lied für die Welt (2018), music documentary created and directed by Hannes M. Schalle, narrated by Peter Simonischek. [28] [29] An English version, Silent Night – A Song for the World (2020), narrated by Hugh Bonneville, was released two years later ...
Nikolaus responds with a Christmas song ("Silent Night"), soon the Scottish bagpiper starts to accompany him, and Nikolaus raises a Christmas tree on the bunker. The Christmas truce starts as the lieutenants agree to stop fighting until the morning. The soldiers come out and the French soldier returns without using his grenades.