The significance of “All Quiet on the Western Front” has not a thing to do with ... But for the men at the front, on to what? “Trench, hospital, mass grave—there are no other options.” World War I was ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

I recently studied World War I in the Middle East through the book by Lawrence of Arabia, and then in East Africa through a ...

A front is a stretch of land where warring countries confront each other and engage in battle. Trenches were widespread on the Western Front - a 400-plus mile stretch weaving through France and ...

For good reason Erich Maria Remarque’s masterwork “All Quiet on the Western Front” is routinely tagged the most important war novel ever written. At the time of its full-length publication ...