Behind Their Lines

One of the most familiar and beloved poems of the Great War was written by Canadian John McCrae, surgeon and major in the 1st Bri...

One-hundred years ago, in April of 1915, Patrick Shaw-Stewart sailed with Rupert Brooke for Gallipoli.  After Brooke's death from blo...

In 1920, two years after the Great War had ended, American poet Sara Teasdale published a poem about spring rains. In 1950, science ficti...

Published in Paris in April of 1918 when masses of American troops were beginning to arrive in France and prepare for battle, Songs from ...

Eleanor Farjeon Easter Monday (In Memoriam E.T.)  by Eleanor Farjeon (1917) In the last letter that I had from France You ...