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lurker_stalker's review
5.0
Well I did not expect to get all teared up but I did. Very good.
**second listen with my wife. We both cried a bit.**
**second listen with my wife. We both cried a bit.**
a_reader_obsessed's review
3.0
A fitting audio production that shows the spirit of Christmas can bring together enemies if for just one night, that war hasn’t defeated honor nor humanity despite how hard it tries.
foofers1622's review
2.0
Eh. One of my least favorites of The Audible Dramas. Very slow moving and boring for such an amazing story.
lezreadalot's review against another edition
3.0
I was a bit leery at first, because I got the impression that this was going to try to romanticise war. But it didn't really, and I quite liked the end result.
papidoc's review against another edition
5.0
What a wonderful dramatization of the events we've probably all heard of, when the blood and horror of war were set aside for a little while on Christmas Eve to allow the men of two different armies respite. Wounded and dead were gathered and buried, small gifts were exchanged, a soccer game broke out (!), and many felt the spirit of the Christmas season overwhelm their baser instincts. I've always loved the historical account, and now it has been brought to life by a cast that could do it justice. Highly recommended.
the_weirdling's review against another edition
3.0
A sentimental and schmaltzy story. It dramatizes an actual event from World War I where the German and British troops called a personal cease fire for Christmas and engage in acts of kindness and carol singing across "no man's land". The actual event is very compelling. This story was not. It is populated by stock characters going through the motions established for them from a hundred war stories, books, and movies. It is one cliche after another. The dialogue must have nearly written itself. That said, it is a bunch of cliches that work. There is a reason they are used over and over again as a part of our stock images for war stories. While somewhat perfunctorily written, the archetypes are still able to perform the magic required of them.
This is a story which - if you're in the right mood for it - is heartwarming. The trick is you have to strike while the iron is hot. If not, it will come off as overly corny, even annoying.
This is a story which - if you're in the right mood for it - is heartwarming. The trick is you have to strike while the iron is hot. If not, it will come off as overly corny, even annoying.
jfkaess's review against another edition
4.0
This is a short story, acted with a full cast on Audible; one of Audible's Originals. It's about the cease fire on Christmas Eve of 1914 in the First World War. I first became aware of the Christmas Eve cease fire when i heard Snoopy's Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen in 1967. The fascinating thing is that the cease fire was not instituted by the nations at war, but rather it occurred spontaneously between the troops of both sides on the front lines. They each granted the other side the opportunity to come out of the trenches and bury their dead lying in "no man's land", and then exchanged food items, clothes and other things and played soccer with each other. This story is the account of one group of those soldiers through the means of a survivor of the war writing to the family of a comrade who had been killed. It's well told and especially well acted in this Audible version. It's well worth the listen.
darthshep's review against another edition
5.0
Wow I did not expect this book to make me feel the way it did. We have all heard about the cease fire that happened over Christmas during WWI, this book gives us the window into one of those companies that are guarding the front line during this time and the events that lead up to Christmas day. I will say there is one scene that had tears going down my cheeks as I was listening to it. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up!