Erich Maria Remarque

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Edward Barnard, whose brother Patrick was murdered by the Glenanne gang, outside Belfast High Court. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Forcing families of Troubles victims through the courts is abusive

Bea Worton died last week aged 91. She was the latest campaigner for truth and justice following the loss of a family member in the Troubles to die wi(...)

All Quiet on the Western Front: from the film of the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Photograph: Ullstein Bild via Getty
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’: Groundbreaking book changed the view of first World War
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  • 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(...)

Jean Echenoz: meticulous and precise
1914 by Jean Echenoz review: epic telling of the horrors of the Great War

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 (...)

Painting by Otto Dix, ‘War Cripples,’ at a Nazi exhibition of Degenerate Art at the Munich Hofgarten, July 1937. Photograph: Ullstein Bild via Getty Images
Otto Dix, artist on the front line

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(...)

A still from the 1930 Hollywood film of All Quiet on the Western Front, starring future Hollywood pacifist Lew Ayres as Paul Bäumer
All Quiet on the Western Front: Portrait of Germany’s Generation War

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(...)

Jennifer Johnston’s How Many Miles to Babylon? – Nomad Theatre stage version including Fergal McElherron and Sam Peter Corry – represented important attempts to re-examine the first World War and its legacy. Photograph: Colm Henry
Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts

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(...)

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
12 great German works to mark Reformation Day

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(...)

Students throw journals and books onto bonfires in Bebelplatz in 1933
Berlin counts the cost of the Nazis’ cultural crackdown

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(...)