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This elegant pocket hardback presents a selection of some of the most enduring, poignant poetry of the First World War, beautifully accompanied by full-colour illustrations.

Selected from the work of soldiers killed in action – starting with Rupert Brooke in 1915 and ending with the tragic loss of Wilfred Owen seven days before the Armistice – the poems capture a broad range of emotions, contemplations and states of mind, ranging from anthems about the brutality of war to wistful evocations of home and