#  CES: Islands of Peace: The Untold Story of World War I 

 



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 **October 8, 2014** 

 12:15PM - 12:15PM EDT 

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 **Center for European Studies, Cabot Room, Busch Hall**  



 

 



 

*Speaker(s):* [**Thomas Weber**](http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/people/profiles/t.weber), Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Aberdeen; Visiting Scholar, CES  
   
 *Sponsor(s): Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe*  
   
 According to the standard narrative of the history of the twentieth century, the combatants of the Great War – the generation of our great-grandparents – were “men of violence”, sailing through a sea of utter destruction and change towards an ocean of even greater violence. Islands of Peace, the book that Dr. Thomas Weber is in the process of completing, tells a radically different story of the First World War and its meaning to the one hitherto told. It reveals a century-long history of a cover-up of Christmas Truces, meetings in no-man’s land throughout the year, and friendly encounters of soldiers with enemy civilians that occurred, not just in 1914, but throughout the war. These events constitute islands of peace in a sea of violence.   
   
 *Contact(s):* Arthur Goldhammer, <art.goldhammer@gmail.com>



 

 



 

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