POETS & PALS OF PICARDY A Weekend on the Somme (Cameos of the Western Front)

Mary Ellen Freeman; Ted Smith (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0850527031 / ISBN 13: 9780850527032

Verlag: Leo Cooper, GB, 1999

Beschreibung

Glossy pictorial covers. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers a512.105

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: POETS & PALS OF PICARDY A Weekend on the Somme (Cameos of the Western Front)
• Verlag: Leo Cooper, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0850527031
• ISBN-13: 9780850527032
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: nrFine

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Inhaltsangabe

This book, following a weekend on the Somme with Mary Freeman as she visits the old front line and back areas, is about the soldiers who wrote poetry and those with whom they lived, fought and, in many cases died. It takes the reader to to the places where they saw action and to the cemeteries and memorials where those who did not survive, rest or are commemorated. Her uncanny knowledge of the battlefields and her deep understanding of poetry, brings to life the men who shared hardship and horror together, men who experience comradeship forged in conditions that are beyond comprehension today, men with normal desires and aspirations who happened to be wearing uniform and some who chose to express themselves through the medium of poetry.