Nazi Germany launched a massive surprise offensive through the Ardennes, aiming to split the Allied forces and turn the tide of the war. Initially, the attack gained ground, but logistical failures, ...
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In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
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 ...
All along the Western Front of the First World War, which stretched for some 700 km from the North Sea to the Franco-Swiss border, a series of 139 funerary and memorial sites bear witness to the ...