Otto Dix, artist on the front line

Although he created some of the most powerful anti-war images ever seen, the German artist maintained an ambivalence about the conflict he volunteered for and survived



Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts

War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities


The Great War, by Peter Hart

A new military history of the first World War not only makes the conflict more intelligible but turns it into a gripping narrative





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