Opinion: The enduring appeal of "White Christmas"
While song, dance and story carry “White Christmas”, they don’t really explain its seductiveness. The plot alone doesn’t do it. It’s something more.
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While song, dance and story carry “White Christmas”, they don’t really explain its seductiveness. The plot alone doesn’t do it. It’s something more.
Updated: July 17 2021, 8.18am Captain Alexander Wallace with his distinctive chestnut and white mare, Vic, and another war horse. Supplied by Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre. It is a remarkable story, stretching from the arable calm of the Angus coast to the brutal desolation of the Somme, and home again. And for the first time, the inspiring tale of a chestnut mare and the decorated Army officer who shared four years on the battlefields of France and Flanders with her has been fully revealed as the true-life background to Angus’s own War Horse. Little known for more than a century, th...