I'm with you on that last one. I've always wanted to be Howard Carter in that moment. (Lord Carnarvon, not so much. The whole dying part was tres ironic and awkward.)

I'm also fascinated by the Christmas Truce. I've read different soldiers' diary accounts of it and just... I don't know many stories that better sum up the contradictions and futility of war waged by politicians safe behind the lines, and paid for by front-line troops.

There was a tri-lingual film about it, which was on over Christmas a couple of years ago - I think it's just called Merry Christmas. Harrowing but very powerful...