CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD: The Poems of World War One

A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD. The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War. Fiona Waters (Editor) Transatlantic Press, Croxley Green. 2008 First edition. ISBN 0954526783 192pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition in a fine unclipped dust wrapper. Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come from the horror of the trenches. Represented here are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight. And there are poems from an earlier age whose themes and aching beauty exactly matched the mood of a nation as an entire generation was lost to war." "Here also are poems inspired by the experience of the countless mothers, wives, sweethearts, sisters and daughters left behind." The poems are counterpointed by painstakingly restored photographic images - many seen here for the first time - which show relentlessly cheerful faces, smiling in the face of darkest adversity. Taken from the unique archives of the Daily Mail, the images capture the small moments of un-named individual people in the cataclysmic catastrophe that was branded 'the war to end all wars'. Ref GG1.…