In the midst of the unrelenting violence of World War I, a cease-fire suddenly ... we won’t fire.” One Irish rifleman ventured out of his trench to test the invitation. After arriving back ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

He was a gifted young war poet who was killed in the First World ... the trenches. The material is as extensive as it is devastating, although not without humour." Writing about a fellow soldier ...