'Not all Englishmen are brutes!': Unseen accounts from WWI reveal the German perspective of famous Christmas Truce in 1914 - where troops exchanged food and tobacco and agreed to 'aim high' when shooting resumed

Respected German historian Robin Schaefer has found and translated a trove of around two dozen contemporary truce accounts, giving an insight into the perspective of the 'enemy'.

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