Behind Their Lines

Postcard from Picasso to Apollinaire, 1918*   War constantly reminds both soldiers and those who love them that life is short and chan...

Ledwidge (on right) with his mother As I wrote in an earlier post (" It is terrible to be always homesick "), the poetry of ...

"Summer & trenches don't go together somehow," Roland Leighton wrote to his sweetheart, Vera Brittain in April 1915.  ...

St George, Alston St. Augustine's, Alston Nowell Oxland, the son of the vicar of St. Augustine's parish church in Alston...

War Cartoon detail, Rothenstein* For a mother to lose a son in wartime – that is indescribable grief -- and so it's nearly impossib...

Robert Graves If you had to choose:  the excitement of war or three years of  research and study at a prestigious university?   Accord...

WWI grenades in the forests of the Argonne I t's difficult to imagine the destruction that laid waste to the lands and villages wh...