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  • Heroes to the End

    Centring mainly on the Great War "Heroes to the End" focuses also on other wars ranging from WW2 to Vietnam from the Falkland Islands War to the civil War in Syria ."Heroes" to the End"-Please respect their sacrifice. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • From Home to Sunset

    From Home to Sunset is a compilation of poems that perhaps confront the needless futility of war. The book centers around the great war, as it is seen by many to be by far the most futile of all wars. The fallen have paid a priceless cost in delivering the fortunes of war. ... Read more

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  • World War I Poetry

    The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Selected Poetry of the First World War

    Edited by Marcus Clapham ...
    Series series Wordsworth Poetry Library
    The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we do remember.This new anthology ... Read more

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  • POEMS (from the Great War) - 23 of WWI's best poems

    by Wilfred Owen ...
    Series series POETRY - Viking, WWI, Contemporary, Christian etc.
    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, is considered to be one of the greatest poets of WWI. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier ... Read more

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  • Poems from the First World War

    Published in Association with Imperial War Museums

    by Gaby Morgan ...
    Poems from the First World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts and family and friends who experienced WWI from different standpoints. It records the early excitement and patriotism, the bravery, friendship and loyalty of the soldiers, and the heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the war went on to damage a generation. It includes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • What Men Live By

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    A kind and humble shoemaker called Simon goes out one day to purchase sheep-skins in order to sew a winter coat for his wife and himself to share. Usually the little money, which Simon earned would be spent to feed his wife and children. Simon decided that in order to afford the skins he must go on a collection to receive the five Rubels and twenty Kopeks owed to him by his customers. As he heads ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Counter-Attack and Other Poems

    Series series The World At War
    Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front,[1] he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. This collection of poems was first published in May 1918. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) ... Read more

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  • Poems

    by Wilfred Owen ...
    Series series The World At War
    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend and mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A FAIRY'S BLUNDER - A Children’s Fairy Story

    Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 128

    by Anon E Mouse ...
    Series Book 128 - Baba Indaba Children's Stories
    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 128In this 128th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the fairy tale of Dindonette, a fairy assigned to look after the people and creatures of Fountain Island. As she goes from house to house she hears children wishing they were more grown up and adults wishing for the looks and energy of their lost youth. So she takes action with ... Read more

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  • VASSILISSA THE CUNNING AND THE TSAR OF THE SEA - A Russian fairy Tale

    Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 192

    by Anon E. Mouse ...
    Series Book 192 - Baba Indaba Children's Stories
    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 192In this 192nd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of “Vassilissa The Cunning And The Tsar Of The Sea.”One year, a peasant sowed a crop of rye and had a bountiful harvest. So poor and hungry were the animals that the field mice, and the birds raided his barn and cleared his harvest. Too late to sow another he took his gun and ... Read more

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  • JACK THE GIANT KILLER - An English Children’s Tale of Magic and Awe

    Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 302

    by Anon E. Mouse ...
    Series Book 302 - Baba Indaba Children's Stories
    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 302In this 302nd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Conish/Welsh story of “JACK THE GIANT KILLER”This tale is set during the reign of King Arthur and tells of a young Cornish farmer's son named Jack who is not only strong but so clever he easily confounds the learned with his penetrating wit. Jack encounters a cattle-eating giant ... Read more

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