The 'Great War' of 1914-18 was the greatest carnage and waste of young life that the world had yet seen.
For many, this senseless destruction is most clearly exemplified by the blighted careers of the 'War Poets': astonishingly creative and literate young men like Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and Edward Thomas, whose youthful promise was destined to be extinguished forever on the battlefield of Europe, In the misery and suffering of war they created some of the most beautiful and lasting verse ever written in the English language. This collection brings together the best of their work, along with rarely-seen writings from women war poets and those on the home front.
