Max Egremont's Some Desperate Glory presents the story of World War I through the lives and words of its poets.
The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars is in 2014. And while World War I devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry--words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets--many of whom...
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