The third in a four-part series looking at the origins of some of the world's most popular melodies In 1915, as a 22-year-old soldier fighting in the First World War, Leip wrote his poem to express ...

BOOK REVIEW: Roberts Gerwarthreviews Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War IIby Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller, W.W. Norton, 256pp, €21 ON THE evening of August 18th, 1941, in the midst of ...

Vera Lynn's "We'll meet again" helped the British endure the war, while "Lili Marleen" reminded the Germans what it cost them. By Richard J Evans The death of Vera Lynn on 18 June at the age of 103 ...

I'M returning today to Lili Marlene, the girl still remembered with affection by the Desert Rats of the Eighth Army who fought so valiantly in the Battle of El Alamein, the 60th anniversary of which ...