200pp, illustrated throughout with photographic images from the front lines of the First World War taken from the archives of the Daily Mail newspaper. Garnet cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Garnet endpapers. 8vo. Cloth rubbed at base of spine, pencil impression of previous pricing on front free endpaper else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughput. In its original, illustrated dust wrapper, a little bumped on extreme edges, a little rubbed at the base of the spine.
Some of the most moving and beautiful poetry ever written has come from horror of the trenches of the first world war. Represented here in his selection of war poetry are those lines dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield as well as those more artfully crafted with hindsight. Includes contributions from Siegfried Sassoon, Laurence Binyon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Harold Munro and many more. A handsome and moving volume.
