most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918 ...

All Quiet on the Western Front' is more than a war film—it’s a powerful critique of nationalism, violence, and the cost of ...

I f you asked a filmmaker or film critic what makes a great war movie, they might point to a variety of characteristics, such as humanizing the soldiers who fight wars, not sugarc ...

The entry of the Americans in 1918 utterly changed the complexion of the fighting on the Western Front. The horrible stalemate of the preceeding years, in which the two sides traded millions of ...

Before embarking on his 32-year career as a school teacher in Wollongong, Thomas (Jersey) Christie served in many of the ...

When 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches.

Boylston, an American nurse serving at a British Army base hospital near the Western Front in 1918 ... Boylston’s vivid account of her World War I nursing experience, published in 1927, depicts ...

Academy voters can't keep quiet about their admiration for All Quiet on the Western Front. The World War I epic, Germany's submission to the Academy Awards, earned not only recognition in the Best ...

It certainly was a prodigious task, as the BEF grew from about 100,000 men in August of 1914 to over two million by mid-1916, by which time each mile of front held required 1,934 tons of rations, ...