Review: ‘Sebastian’ – a light on history

When I’d finished reading ‘Sebastian’ by Christoph Fischer, I was grateful for two things: that people still write about dark periods of our history with such quiet emotion, detail and research – and secondly that the sense of the era was so compellingly conveyed. I have always viewed WW1 in lightless photographs, and believed everything at that time was in monochrome. But the author brings clarity to this colourless time by emphasizing the effects of war on the microcosm of the family in a w...