The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War

Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come form the horror of the trenches. Represented here are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight. and there are poems from an earlier age whose themes and aching beauty exactly matched the mood of a nation as an entire generation was lost to war.

The poems are counterpointed by painstakingly restored photographic images - many seen here for the first time - which show relentlessly cheerful faces, smiling in the face of darkest adversity. You see comradeship of the most truthful kind. Taken from the unique archives of THE DAILY MAIL, the images capture the small moments of un-named individual people in the cataclysmic catastrophe that was branded 'the war to end all wars'.

Poets have written about war since the dawn of time, yet the stature of the greatest of the World War I poets is unquestioned. Their is some of the greatest poetry ever written.

Hardback - 190 pages

Published 2007

Excellent unmarked condition - as new