
Muse of Fire
World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
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Michael Korda
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The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda's epic Muse of Fire.
With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the bestselling author of Alone and Hero, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation—destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England—and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that took over 25,000,000 lives. In a sweeping narrative that echoes The Guns of August, Korda recounts these four years of a civilization destroying itself and portrays the lives and anguished deaths of the young men who unforgettably illuminated it. As the success of Pat Barker's Regeneration, the remake of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the images of brutal trench warfare in today's Ukraine demonstrate, contemporary interest in "the war to end war" remains high.
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
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The Price of Glory
- Verdun 1916
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War.
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Epic Account, Masterful in Its Scope, Power and Resonance
- De Ted Shealy en 05-01-24
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The Beauty and the Sorrow
- An Intimate History of the First World War
- De: Peter Englund, Peter Graves - translator
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 21 h y 32 m
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In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of 20 individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund's collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling".
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Great narration but exceedingly long chapters
- De Michelle en 04-26-22
De: Peter Englund, y otros
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A Mad Catastrophe
- The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- De: Geoffrey Wawro
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Wawro
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.
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Wawro's Diatribe Against A-H Military Leadership
- De Placeholder en 08-30-14
De: Geoffrey Wawro
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Alone
- Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
- De: Michael Korda
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 11-11-17
De: Michael Korda
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The Habsburg Empire
- A New History
- De: Pieter M. Judson
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living throughout the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule.
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Ideal for students of empires, nationalism, minorities and ethnic groups
- De Uther en 02-11-17
De: Pieter M. Judson
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Twilight of Empire
- The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
- De: Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours, and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy, but Mayerling is also the story of family secrets
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Not me for
- De ashmolean en 05-23-19
De: Greg King, y otros
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The Price of Glory
- Verdun 1916
- De: Alistair Horne
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War.
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Epic Account, Masterful in Its Scope, Power and Resonance
- De Ted Shealy en 05-01-24
De: Alistair Horne
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The Beauty and the Sorrow
- An Intimate History of the First World War
- De: Peter Englund, Peter Graves - translator
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 21 h y 32 m
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In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of 20 individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund's collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling".
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Great narration but exceedingly long chapters
- De Michelle en 04-26-22
De: Peter Englund, y otros
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A Mad Catastrophe
- The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- De: Geoffrey Wawro
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Wawro
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.
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Wawro's Diatribe Against A-H Military Leadership
- De Placeholder en 08-30-14
De: Geoffrey Wawro
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Alone
- Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
- De: Michael Korda
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 11-11-17
De: Michael Korda
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The Habsburg Empire
- A New History
- De: Pieter M. Judson
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living throughout the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule.
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Ideal for students of empires, nationalism, minorities and ethnic groups
- De Uther en 02-11-17
De: Pieter M. Judson
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Twilight of Empire
- The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
- De: Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
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On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours, and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy, but Mayerling is also the story of family secrets
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Not me for
- De ashmolean en 05-23-19
De: Greg King, y otros
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The Great War and Modern Memory
- De: Paul Fussell
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world.
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Audio not great for first time reader.
- De Amazon Customer en 01-10-19
De: Paul Fussell
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The Western Front
- A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
- De: Nick Lloyd
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918.
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Incisive Overview
- De J.Brock en 01-19-22
De: Nick Lloyd
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Stalingrad
- De: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Duración: 37 h y 14 m
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The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines.
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war and peace
- De L. Kerr en 12-19-24
De: Vasily Grossman, y otros
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- De: G. J. Meyer
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 27 h y 57 m
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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War.
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A great book!
- De Jodi Bernard en 07-11-23
De: G. J. Meyer
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How the War Was Won
- Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II
- De: Phillips Payson O'Brien
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 22 h y 57 m
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World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology, and economic power, the war was far more a contest of air and sea than of land supremacy.
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Excellent history, but repetitive
- De Anna S. en 11-26-23
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The Savage Storm
- The Battle for Italy 1943
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: Al Murray
- Duración: 18 h y 24 m
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Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war. James Holland’s The Savage Storm chronicles the dramatic opening months of the Italian Campaign in unflinching and insightful detail.
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Poor narration
- De UNCLE SAM en 01-20-25
De: James Holland
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Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members. Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down.
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Excellent presentation.
- De Arnie en 08-28-24
De: Richard J. Evans
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- De: Frank McDonough
- Narrado por: Paul McGann
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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Established in 1918–19, in the wake of Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature.
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Excellent overview
- De Rory en 09-16-24
De: Frank McDonough
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- De: Anthony Kaldellis
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened.
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Very Detailed but Tedious
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-24
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This Is Berlin
- Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
- De: William Shirer
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 41 m
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This collection of William L. Shirer’s radio broadcasts tells the vivid story of WWII and brings the suspense of the times to life for today’s audience. As the first journalist hired by CBS to cover the war in Europe, Shirer compiled two and a half years’ worth of wartime broadcasts including Hitler’s invasion of Austria, the armistice between France and Nazi forces in June of 1940, daily roundups of news from Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London and Rome, documenting the conditions of these countries under invasion.
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Another banger from Willy and Grover
- De Garrett Webster en 04-08-24
De: William Shirer
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Iron and Blood
- A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
- De: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrado por: Rory Alexander
- Duración: 34 h y 54 m
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German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting. Iron and Blood takes as its starting point the consolidation of the Holy Roman Empire, which created new mechanisms for raising troops but also for resolving disputes diplomatically.
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Awesome
- De Will Georgiadis en 04-11-23
De: Peter H. Wilson
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World War 2 in the Pacific Collection: Across Wake Island, Bataan, Guadalcanal, Corregidor, and Iwo Jima
- Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific, The Saga of Pappy Gunn, On Valor's Side, The Coastwatchers, They Call it Pacific, Joe Foss Flying Marine, South from Corregidor, The Story of Wake Island, & Mission Beyond Darkness
- De: Robert Lackie, General George C. Kenney, T. Grady Gallant, y otros
- Narrado por: Museum Audiobooks Cast
- Duración: 66 h y 14 m
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This is a nine-book bundle on the Pacific War, the theatre of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and Oceania. The Pacific War saw the Allies pitted against Japan, aided by Thailand and its Axis allies, Germany and Italy. Fighting included some of the largest naval battles in history, and the war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Good collection, great bargain well worth a credit
- De R. Denton en 08-13-21
De: Robert Lackie, y otros
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- Fred G
- 05-20-24
Very Compelling
A thought provoking examination of WWI through the lives of young men / gifted poets / and a tragically lost generation - although distant it seems eerily relevant to our age - “those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs” Jonah 2:8
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- Bart Casey
- 03-06-25
Hear and remember: the scarcest human quality is commonsense
How the young war poets left the most powerful indictment of war in their words
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