The Great War: 100 Years Ago

All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque that would become one of the best selling and most enduring stories of the Great War published.  Remarque was a young German conscript into the Army who fought for the final year of the… more »

In middle August, 2014, despite comments from many people associated with government that the war would be over in months, Lord Kitchener - a war hero and soldier who was appointed to the civilian post of secretary of war, declared that the emergency… more »

Siegfried Sassoon was the scion of a wealthy British family who had a formal education at  Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge where he read history.  He was somewhat of a dilletente but was also a brilliant writer, publishing the… more »

There are many ways to look at the horror and loss of the Great War, but one of the most visually arresting in its expression of emotion is painting.   With millions of men and women fighting for the military of the Entente and the Allies it is not… more »

On 9 December 1928 a play oepned in London that included the young Laurence Olivier written by R.C. Sherriff. R.C. Sherriff was a middle class British clerk who served in the 1st Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment.  During the war he fought in… more »