[madcat]

Hi there

My sister saw this film Joyeux Noël the other day on iTune and was thinking about renting it, don't know if she did or not but any way. She came to me and was asking me questions about how true the story was behind the film and other stuff about WW1.

So I told her basically how WW1 started and how the army's where lined up etc... and as far as I was aware, yes the story behind the film about an unofficial truce one Christmas and them playing a game of football in the middle of No Man's Land was true. But some questions I couldn't answer or didn't know how to explain because I wasn't shore.

So I thought I would ask on here as some people seem to know a lot about WW1.

The questions;

1. Did the Christmas unofficial truce happen again or was it a one off ?

2. Did unofficial truces or fighting stop in other places along the lines ? (I said I think so and that hey would send in sharpshooters to start the fighting back up again, but not shore)

3. Would people get themselves captured on purpose to get out of fighting ? (I said I think so, depends how desperate you was)

4. Why didn't they just go round, like invade Denmark from Britain across the North Sea or invade Austro-Hungarian Empire from Italy across the Adriatic Sea ?

Thanks in advance