Read The Good Soldier Švejk

Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and his family adjusts; Kafka in sixty pages.

Josef K. is arrested for something nobody will name; the word Kafkaesque comes from here.

Two girls named Marie decide to be as bad as the world; Vera Chytilova's anarchic collage.

Watch Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Paths of Glory, set during World War I.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.

Paul Baumer and his classmates in the trenches; the German novel of the First World War.

T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.