Wilfred Owen's Shrewsbury Av Helen Mcphail

The horrors of the Western Front are widely known, but what was life like on ''the other side of the trenches'' in World War I? Helen McPhail here shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded...

For most readers of English poetry, the face under that helmet is that of Wilfred Owen.' Professor Jon Stallworthy, from his Introduction. When Wilfred Owen was killed in the days before the Armistice in 1918, he left behind a shattering, truthful...