ON the outbreak of the first world war, Sir Edward Grey, Britain’s foreign secretary, stated that “the lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” When ...

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 ...

Norbert Schultze, who has died in Berlin aged 91, was the composer of Lili Marleen, the German song immortalised by Marlene Dietrich which became an anthem for troops on both sides during World War II ...

Underneath the lamplight Lili Marlene waited in vain for her soldier lover who, unknown to her, had been posted to the front. Her heartbreaking story was the song of the Second World War and is ...

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 ...

Lale Anderson, Hans Liep, Norbert Schultze, Josef Goebbels, Tommy Connor, Anne Shelton and the Ambrose Orchestra, Suzy Solidor, Marlene Dietrich, Nancy Viscountess Astor, Lord Waldorf Astor, Isaac ...

Norbert Schultze, who has died in Berlin aged 91, was the composer of Lili Marleen, the German song immortalised by Marlene Dietrich, which became an anthem for troops on both sides during the Second ...

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 ...