The Great War

The First World War in literature — the poets of the trenches and the memoirs that recorded the century’s great catastrophe.

The war that ended the old world

In this collection

• A Song by Uncle Sidney
• The Dying Child to her Blind Father
• Poor Jack
• The Danes of Yore
• The Evolution of the Prison
• Because of Conscience
• Roses, Ruses and Romance
• Return
• The Old Band
• The Poor Gentleman
• A Recollection
• Old Chums
• You will remember that leaping stream
• The Purpose
• The Gold Wulfric
• The Auld Carle
• Independent People
• The Picture
• Early Autumn
• On the Beach
• The Navy Eternal
• The Dark Hour
• The White Battalion

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