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For King and Country: Voices from the First World War - Brian MacArthur

Description: ISBN 0349120293 / Genre: History / Author: Brian MacArthur / Paperback / 480 Pages / Book is published 2009-02-05 by Abacus

Newest Review: ... chronolgically, with chapters concentrating on each year from 1914 to 1918, followed by a section on the Aftermath and its ... more

... effects. There is also an interesting five-page introduction, which is worth reading. For King and Country contains many fascinating extracts from both famous people and unknowns. The former category includes Siegfried Sassoon, Rudyard Kipling, Woodrow Wilson, Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill, Rupert Brooke, Jerome K. Jerome and Wilfred Owen. One of the extracts I found especially moving was The Death of Rupert Brooke by W. Denis Browne (1915), but of course, there are many tragic stories told here, not only of ...more

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For King and Country: Voices from the First World War - Brian MacArthur: A Good Bedtime Read for Insomniacs (535 words)
by - written on 08/05/09 (Very useful, 96 readings)
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After recently watching the excellent series The Monocled Mutineer on DVD, I was inspired to read more about the First World War. It is a period I studied in history and also in English Literature, when we learned about the war poets. This book For King and Country - Voices from the First World War is an anthology of writings edited by Brian MacArthur. It features around 450 pages of journals, poems, articles and memories of those involved in WWI. These factual accounts cover all kinds of styles, lengths and subject matter, but each one is hopefully able to give the reader a real taste of a time most of us are too young to remember first-hand. The ... Read the complete review

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