Full name: Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War

Author: I. M. Parsons Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780435146887 0435146882

Beautiful selection of British First World War poetry by both standard and lesser known poets. Originally produced in 1965, the author was able to speak to many of the original poets. It is heart rending and profoundly moving to read of the first time that humans fought machines and lost. At the time it was inexplicable and culture shattering. The typical European/American belief in an optimistic, scientific view of life ended in the mud of Flanders and Verdun. The madness of Fascism and Communism has its origins in the trenches of the Western Front.