Apropos to the season, a WW1 letter written by a Canadian soldier has been in the news in the past week, apparently showing that there was a frontline truce at Vimy Ridge as late as 1916 (meaning that for them the war had been going on for 2 years), one of those legendary events where the Germans come over and shake hands and trade canned beef for cigarettes and so on. Interesting if it turns out to be authentic- but I was brought up more on the stories where Germans would sing "Stille Nacht" in order to get the other side to stick their heads to hear so the snipers could get them...