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Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front: a poignant anti-war flick undermined by cheap history

November 07, 2022

Eric Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front nearly a century ago. Many of his readers and his friends had traipsed through support trenches and gone over the top into the desolate No Man’s Lands of Belgium and Northern France. They had fought, killed and seen the human form brutalised beyond recognition. The horror and absurdity of

We are not over the First World War

November 13, 2017

The First World War had no clear reason, and that is why we are so traumatised by it

Let’s make sure the Somme anniversary has a religious resonance

June 27, 2016

July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army

The First World War veterans who fought for the faith

November 05, 2015

A Hobbit, a Wardrobe and a Great War by Joseph Loconte, Nelson Books, £16.99 It cannot have been easy to shock Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury queen. Bohemian to the core, she presided over a circle of literary hedonists whose escapades the BBC deemed racy enough to turn into a television series earlier this year. And