Germans

Slabs of roast pork with carrots and potatoes. Read More

As night fell on Christmas Eve the British soldiers noticed the Germans putting up small Christmas trees along with candles at the top of their trenches and many began to shout in English "We no shoot if you no shoot."(p. 25). The firing stopped along the many miles of the trenches and the British began to notice that the Germans were coming out of the trenches toward the British who responded by coming out to meet them. They mixed and mingled in No Man's Land and soon began to exchange chocolates for cigars and various newspaper accounts of the war which contained the propaganda from their respective homelands. Many of the officers on each side attempted to prevent the event from occurring but the soldiers ignored the risk of a court-martial or of being shot. Read More

Five people have died in an early-morning fire at a house in Unna town near Dortmund in western Germany, authorities say. Read More

The problem is that I am not sure whether or not the argument Higgs gives in his review is really Buchanan's argument, as I have never read the book and so do not know the wider context of the quote. Read More

troubled northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said, according to dpa. Read More