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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The song, “Lili Marlene,” was one of the most popular ditties of World War II, beloved by Allied and Axis soldiers alike for its tale of a soldier lamenting how war had separated him from his ...

In 1941, a German-controlled radio station in Belgrade broadcast a recording that soldiers later referred to affectionately as “Lili Marlene.” Leibovitz (Aliya) and Miller (a Columbia School of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This sheet music is for the song ...

Stories of love, loss and friendship through the WW2 song Lili Marlene, made famous by Marlene Dietrich and sung by soldiers on both sides. Show more It tells the story of Alexander Franks deployed ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This original musical love story of Rosie Penn, the famous cabaret singer, and ...

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 ...

Marlene Dietrich made her way to a recording studio in the middle of New York’s Times Square, about to give one of the most audacious performances of her career. The Berlin-born screen siren had ...