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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Thermaenius, Pehr, 1944-     Subjects     Coyle, Jimmy.     Schmidt, Albert (Soccer player)     Christmas Truce, 1914.     Christmas -- History -- Flanders.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Armistices.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.     Soldiers -- Flanders -- Biography.     Soccer matches -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Thermaenius, Pehr, 1944-       by title:      The Christmas match ...       by call number:      940.421 T411c     Search the Web     Thermaenius, Pehr, 1944-     Coyle, Jimmy.     Schmidt, Albert (Soccer player)     Christmas Truce, 1914.     Christmas -- History -- Flanders.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Armistices.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.     Soldiers -- Flanders -- Biography.     Soccer matches -- History.       MARC Display

The Christmas match : football in No Man's Land, 1914 / Pehr Thermaenius. by Thermaenius, Pehr, 1944- Uniform Press, 2014. Call #: 940.421 T411c Subjects Coyle, Jimmy.   Schmidt, Albert (Soccer player)   Christmas Truce, 1914.   Christmas -- History -- Flanders.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Armistices.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.   Soldiers -- Flanders -- Biography.   Soccer matches -- History. ISBN:  9781910500019 (pbk.) 1910500011 (pbk.) Description:  223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm. Notes:  Subtitle from cover. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-221). Summary:  "After four months of intense fighting, the war in Flanders between German and British soldiers fell silent on Christmas Eve 1914. The soldiers started singing instead of shooting. On Christmas Day they came out of their trenches and met in No Man's Land. Some chased rabbits. Some played football. This true story is about two footballers and soldiers, one Saxon and one Scot, who were in units that played a match in a field between the French villages Houplines and Frelinghien. Scotsman Jimmy Coyle had played professional football before the war. Saxon Albert Schmidt played in the third team for his local club. On Christmas afternoon they each got the chance to defeat their opponents without weapons. Pehr Thermaenius has tracked both Jimmy's and Albert's stories through military archives; from mobilization in August to the hard frozen mud in that field in Flanders that became a football field on Christmas Day. The story of the football match is a light in the darkness as the world remembers the tragic waste of a hundred years ago."--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Christmas Nonfiction 940.421 T411c Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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