Now all roads lead to France

[alanmackie]

Hi

Amazons daily Kindle deal 99p available till midnight.

http://www.amazon.co..._rd_i=341689031

Dental

[Simon_Fielding]

Well worth it - a very moving book, quite literary, about a poet who began the war as a questioner of the war and grew more convinced of his need to serve as it went on. Interesting on milieu of Brooke and depicts Owen on the fringes of a circle whose centre was the Bloomsbury Poetry Bookshop. Good on friendship with Robert Frost, and Frost's attitude to war as an American emigre - considered joining up himself...

Moving and sophisticated - Great War bibliography listed is a bit basic, but don't let that put you off.

[Norrette]

Hi Amazons daily Kindle deal 99p available till midnight.

Thanks Dental

[kenf48]

Thought it was worth reviving this thread - not only because it's a very moving book, and I'd endorse Simon's review above, essential reading for an understanding of the pre-war poetry world, but also because the author and book were featured on this month's Radio 4 Book Club http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5sf and is well worth a listen especially for anyone who has read the book. Matthew Hollis reads 'Adelstrop' in the clip on the website and argues the case for Thomas the 'war poet'.

I especially like the fact, recounted by Hollis in the programme that when Thomas, who was against many aspects of the war, when asked why he enlisted, he was 37, simply bent down and picked up a handful of English soil, let's it slip through his fingers and says 'for this'.

Ken