Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, numerous commentators have drawn comparisons to the First World War. While many ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...

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 in 1929—it ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One, as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive map ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World War. Its catalysts were so trivial and its consequences so apocalyptic that ...

When German novelist Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in 1929, it was as if the world had been waiting for someone to finally tell war’s ugly truth. At the time, war stories ...