Helen McPhail Libri

Focusing on the wartime experiences of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, this guide highlights their roles as officers in the Royal Welch Fusiliers during World War I. It connects their literary works to real people and locations, providing insights into their lives and careers after the war. Additionally, the guide features a comprehensive bibliography, making it a valuable resource for both literature enthusiasts and history buffs interested in the authors' contributions beyond their military service.

This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the young and sensitive poet, whose poems are probably the twentieth centuryÕs best-known literary expressions of experience of war. Detailed maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads guide the visitor through the battlefields. Owen\'s letters are used extensively, together with his poetry, linking specific places events, vividly describing the suffering of the trench.

This study is based on the extraordinarily rich and varied range of trench journalism that brings to life - in the vivid language of the soldiers themselves - not only their suffering but also their vulgarity, sentimentality and idealism.

The book follows the war career of this first world war poet. Details of maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads to guide the visitor through the events, describing the sufferings of battle and trench life.