In 1915, World War I poet Rupert Brooke died in the Aegean Sea on his way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. John Lehmann reconstructs Brooke's last days using the log of the French hospital ship Duguay-Trouin, on which Brooke died and was buried at sea. This powerful book is a tribute to one of England's greatest war poets. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...
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