This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the young and sensitive poet, whose poems are probably the twentieth centuryÃ•s 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.

Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe)

Biographies & Memoirs

Guest, Philip

McPhail, Helen

Arts & Literature

Pen and Sword Military

Edmund Blunden: On a Poets Trail is the second guide in the Battleground Poet Specials. Following on from the highly successful Wilfred Owen guide, the book follows the war career of this prolific First World War poet. Details of maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads to guide the visitor through the events, vividly describing the sufferings of battle and trench life.

Edmund Blunden: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe)

Leaders & Notable People

After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous number of fighting men, a weight of experience, courage, defeat and victory, all to be traced through these fields and villages round the city. There is much to honour here: exhausted British troops marching south in the Retreat from Mons in August 1914, resistance attacks on the Hindenburg Line in 1917, desperate feats of arms in the final German onslaught in the Spring of 1918. Many impressive individual and collective achievements, captured guns, Victoria Crosses richly earned. The ancient city itself suffered too - bombardment by French and British artillery, its citizens subjected and exploited by the occupying German forces, then evacuated ahead of the withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line - before its final liberation in October 1918. The book gives details of positions, redoubts, attacks, lines of advance and retreat, with many illustrations provided from local sources. Most of the positions described can still be traced and the sites of some epic events located.

St. Quentin: Hindenburg Line

Arts & Photography

Guest, Phillip

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Leo Cooper

Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves were two of the most famous British authors of the 20th century, but they are remembered by many World War I buffs primarily as officers in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. This unique guide traces the wartime service of the authors, identifies actual people and places in their works, and gives biographical detail on their long post-war lives and careers. Includes full bibliography.

Graves and Sassoon: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe)

Literature & Fiction

Portrait of Wilfred Owen: Poet and soldier, 1893-1918

Historical

Gliddon Books in association with the Wilfred Owen Association

The horrors of the Western Front are widely known, but what was life like on 'the other side of the trenches' in World War I? Helen McPhail here shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded by the Germans, then occupied and exploited by them, between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population mistreated and malnourished and even taken to forced labour camps - the people lived in terror. Starvation loomed and contact with the outside world vanished. Based on original sources, including diaries, letters and journals, this fascinating account describes how - in the struggle to survive - French civilians responded in ways familiar in World War II: escape networks, espionage, producing clandestine newspapers and attempting to help British soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. It provides a unique viewpoint on a forgotten aspect of World War I.

The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I

History

Europe

I.B.Tauris

The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914-1918

This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid memories and official records, shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population maltreated and malnourished and even taken to forced labor camps until Herbert Hoover set up his scheme of aid which kept the population alive during the war. This fascinating account describes how French civilians responded in familiar ways in the war.

This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid memories, and official records, shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied, and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population maltreated and malnourished, and even taken to forced labor camps: The population lived in terror. Starvation loomed and contact with the outside world vanished until Herbert Hoover set up his scheme of aid that kept the population alive during the war.

Wilfred Owen's Shrewsbury

Fircone Books Ltd

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Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe)

Edmund Blunden: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe)

St. Quentin: Hindenburg Line

Graves and Sassoon: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe)

Portrait of Wilfred Owen: Poet and soldier, 1893-1918

The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I

The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914-1918

The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914-1918

Wilfred Owen's Shrewsbury