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The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems from the Somme to Afghanistan

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War never stops. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace. This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, as victims or anguished witnesses. It chronicles times of war and conflict from the trenches of the Somme through the Spanish Civil War to the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust; and in Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, Central America, Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan and other so-called theatres of war. There are poems from years when the world was threatened by all-out nuclear war and more recent poems written in response to international terrorism.

Language: English

Pages: 608

Format: Paperback

Release: August 28, 2014

ISBN 13: 9781780371009

The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems from the Somme to Afghanistan

0/5 ( ratings)

War never stops. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace. This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, as victims or anguished witnesses. It chronicles times of war and conflict from the trenches of the Somme through the Spanish Civil War to the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust; and in Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, Central America, Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan and other so-called theatres of war. There are poems from years when the world was threatened by all-out nuclear war and more recent poems written in response to international terrorism.

Language: English

Pages: 608

Format: Paperback

Release: August 28, 2014

ISBN 13: 9781780371009

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