'The truth untold,/ The pity of war, the pity war distilled...'
Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered.
The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures.
ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.
The poems are arranged by theme to give a sense of how the writers' feelings and attitudes evolved.
Written By - Berwick Coates
Performed By : Berwick Coates
Publisher : Berwick Coates
Runtime : 48 minutes
Categories : British
Contemporary
Price : $8.99
This series sets out to show what the English thought about losing their American colonies (not much), how they collected an empire (and lost it), how they became "top nation" (and then slipped). More info... |
Written By - Christopher Lee
Performed By : Anna Massey
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Non Fiction
British
Pre 1900
Price : $22.75
The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey More info... |
Written By - Joanna Bourke
Performed By : Tim Pigott-Smith
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 4 hours 30 minutes
Categories : 20th Century
British
Social & Economic
Music Related
Price : $25.25
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, wtitten by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith. More info... |
Written By - David Starkey
Performed By : Tim Piggot-Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Runtime : 5 hours 16 minutes
Categories : Royalty and Heads of State
Historical
British
Biographical
Price : $17.49
Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English… More info... |
