"By day, his eyes were the colour of the dead Poilu's jacket, that lay in front of the trench, just beyond the wire, pale and silent against the dark loam of no man's land; a faded steel blue in the chilly damp of the morning fog, bloodstained around the fraying edges..." Photo and text : Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, shown during his time as a soldier in the First World War.