
As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, including Wilfred Owen, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great Warpoets.
Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective onthe War. The first world war produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'what passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war.
Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925

Testament of youth, one of the most famous autobiographies of the first World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.
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The Great War and Modern Memory

Dispensing with literary theory and elevated rhetoric, novels, diaries, and letters reflected the massive changes--in every area, Fussell grounds literary texts in the mud and trenches of World War I and shows how these poems, including language itself--brought about by the cataclysm of the Great War.
Exploring the work of siegfried sassoon, both actual and literary, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, Edmund Blunden, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, David Jones, for those writers who--with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning--most effectively memorialized World War I as an historical experience.
. Today, ushered in the modern era, and unapologetic account of the Great War, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, the war that changed a generation, and revolutionized how we see the world. This brilliant work illuminates the trauma and tragedy of modern warfare in fresh, revelatory ways.
Winner of both the national book award and the national book critics circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970 .
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry Penguin Classics

This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others.
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others

Moving and powerful, this carefully chosen collection offers today's readers an excellent overview of the brutal range of verse produced as poets responded to the carnage on the fields of Belgium and France. Col. Ironically, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, many of them combatants, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, the failure of civilization, the loss of innocence, and the madness of war itself.
This volume contains a rich selection of poems from that time by rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, and others known especially for their war poetry — as well as poems by such major poets as Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, A. E.
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories Penguin Classics

These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature.
The Return of the Soldier

The First World War: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions

This very short introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did. It examines the state of europe in 1914 and the outbreak of war; the onset of attrition and crisis; the role of the US; the collapse of Russia; and the weakening and eventual surrender of the Central Powers.
These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. By the time the first world war ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Not So Quiet . . .: A Novel

Bitch”—even as their parents swell with pride that their girls aren’t shirking their duty to king and country. Praised by the chicago sun-times for its “furious, funny, indignant power” and winner of the Prix Severigne in France as “the novel most calculated to promote international peace, ” this story offers a rare, bitter, and undeniably feminist look at war and its effects on all those who take part.
Taking the guise of an autobiography by Smith—a pseudonym for Evadne Price—Not So Quiet . . . Is a compelling counterpoint to Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. A bittersweet feminist antiwar novel . . .
The Missing of the Somme

The missing of the somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War.
Regeneration

In 1917 siegfried sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim. One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regneration has been hailed by critics across the globe.
More than one hundred years since World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever. William rivers, set about restoring Sassoon’s “sanity” and sending him back to the trenches. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired.