Behind Their Lines

Oh! What a Lovely War! is best known today as the title of Richard Attenborough’s 1969 film that used popular songs of the...

Apollinaire (wounded) The French soldier Guillaume Apollinaire was thirty-five when he volunteered for military service in December of...

Postcard from Picasso to Apollinaire, 1918*   War constantly reminds both soldiers and those who love them that life is short and chan...