Erich Maria Remarque
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‘All Quiet on the Western Front’: Groundbreaking book changed the view of first World War
- Books
- November 7, 2018, 06:00
For some years after the end of the first World War, the memoirs of generals and statesmen dominated publication about it – none more prominently than(...)
1914 by Jean Echenoz review: epic telling of the horrors of the Great War
- Books
- June 28, 2016, 20:00
Friday, July 1st, is the centenary of the opening offensive of the Battle of the Somme, one of the most harrowing events in human history. The German (...)
Otto Dix, artist on the front line
- Heritage
- May 18, 2016, 00:00
The German artist Otto Dix went to war, willingly. Unlike many who fought, he had no misgivings, not initially. Not for several years in fact. Patriot(...)
All Quiet on the Western Front: Portrait of Germany’s Generation War
- Heritage
- May 5, 2015, 01:00
Literature is universal, yet reading tends to be a personal response. Some novels move the soul, and a rare handful touch a nation. Fewer still addres(...)
Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts
- Heritage
- May 5, 2015, 01:00
War is ambivalent; for the powers that decide to wage it, it is as ancient as man, even older than Homer and is caused by expansionist greed and do(...)
12 great German works to mark Reformation Day
- Books
- October 31, 2014, 17:51
It is Halloween, but it is also Reformation Day in Germany. Exactly 497 years ago Martin Luther strode up to the castle church in Wittenberg and na(...)
Berlin counts the cost of the Nazis’ cultural crackdown
- Culture
- May 11, 2013, 01:00
Every city has its ghosts, but in Berlin this week a portal to the past was wide open, and spectres, benign and malevolent, wandered the citysc(...)
