商品簡介
It is Christmas Day and in a comfortable chair by a fire, Thomas Tolliver shares with his young grandchildren the story of his Christmas in the trenches: It is cold and clear on Christmas Eve night in 1914. Thomas and his fellow British soldiers are holed up in muddy trenches along the Western Front. Just across a field known as “No Man's Land” their enemies, German soldiers, lie in wait.Suddenly a strange sound pierces the darkness. Someone is singing a Christmas carol in German. Other German voices join in. When the song ends, Thomas and the other British soldiers sing “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.” Soon carols are sung back and forth across No Man's Land. Then a figure emerges in the dark, carrying a small Christmas tree with lighted candles. Slowly the British and German soldiers leave their trenches, and the war, behind to stand together in the open field.
作者簡介
JOHN MCCUTCHEON IS ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST REESPECTED FOLKSINGERS. HIS TWENTY-NINE RECORDINGS HAVE GARNERED NUMEROUS HONORS, INCLUDING FIVE CONSECUTIVE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS. THIS BOOKS IS BASED ON HIS SONG ALSO ENTITLED "CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES", WHICH HE WROTE IN 1984. HIS SONG "HAPPY ADOPTION DAY" WAS ALSO ADAPTED FOR A CHILDREN'S BOOK. HE LIVES IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
