The titles of these First World War poems alone tell a tale of despair and hopelessness. Yet despite the brutality of the Great War, soldiers were able to endure a drawn-out conflict. How did they ...

The highly-regarded poet Charlotte Mew was all too aware of the shattering impact of war. In her poem 'June, 1915' she describes "a great broken world with eyes gone dim/ From too much looking on ...

John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders ... including Charlotte Mew, whose great work The Cenotaph was published ...

As a member of the media and thus, according to the new president, an enemy of the people, I should have something to say about all this,” writes columnist. “But ...