Weintraub, Stanley

From Thanksgiving Day to Christmas 1950, was a tense period during the Korean war. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander in the Far East, gambled that he could end the war by Christmas and send the bulk of his armies home. His promise was too public. His troops, in the frozen, windswept north Korea area really believed him, despite all evidence to the contrary. When North Korea invaded South Korea, and America entered the war (which was never an official war declared by Congress under the Constitution) the men would never be "Home for Christmas". Instead, it would be a prolonged stay in Korea for thousands of American troops.

Describes the short-lived Christmas Eve truce that broke out on much of the Western Front in 1914.

Tells the true story of the truce that spontaneously arose between German and British soldiers manning the trenches on Christmas Eve 1914, just weeks after the start of the Great War.

It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort to the Allied soldiers trying to stop the Nazis from retaking Belgium in one of the most decisive battles of World War II. While a German loudspeaker taunted, "How would you like to die for Christmas?" the Allied forces dug in, despite freezing conditions. They needed a miracle.

Discusses the Christmas season of 1941 that played out in the shadows of the Pearl Harbor attack and the start of America's involvement in World War II.