We have a general sense of what is needed in the run-up to war—not least the stockpiling of armaments and materiel. It turns out that we should inventory our stockpiles of literature as well. War ...
Two of England’s finest poets of World War I—Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen—met in a mental hospital in Scotland in 1917. Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh, is the subject of “Soldiers ...
Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...
World War I has inspired an extraordinary range of fiction and non-fiction, capturing the devastation, resilience, and shifting societal landscapes of the early 20th century. Ranked by the number of ...