Dimensions
220 x 271 x 3mm
'At dawn the first shell landed with a crack.
Then shells and bullets swept the icy woods.
This lasted many days. The snow was black.
The corpses stiffened in their scarlet hoods.'
A poem can tell us a great deal about the moment in history when the poet put pen to paper. This book uses the poetry of World War II to examine the war in the desert, jungle, air and sea, the Holocaust, the role of women and the fate of civilians during wartime. It looks closely at the poets and their poetry, and at the world they describe.
