THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's Memoirs from The Great War

THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's Memoirs from The Great War

Author: E. W. Hornung

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-05-29

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 8075832868

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This carefully edited World War I collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Poems Consecration Lord's Leave Last Post The Old Boys Ruddy Young Ginger The Ballad of Ensign Joy Bond and Free Shell-Shock in Arras The Big Thing Forerunners Uppingham Song Wooden Crosses Memoir Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and a war poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle. Hornung's works are also remembered for giving insight into the social mores of late 19th and early 20th century British society.


Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War

Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War

Author: Rina Lapidus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1134516835

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This book deals with the work of fifteen young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity while serving in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, all were poets, most were thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time being rooted in Jewish culture and traditions. Their poetry, written mostly in Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian, was coloured by their backgrounds, by the literary and cultural climate that prevailed in the Soviet Union, and was deeply concerned with their expectation of impending death at the hands of the Nazis. The book examines the poets’ backgrounds, their lives, their poetry and their deaths. Like the experiences and poetry of the British First World War poets, the lives and poems of these young Jewish poets are extremely interesting and deeply moving.


DK Eyewitness Books: Soldier

DK Eyewitness Books: Soldier

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Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-01-30

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0756655897

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This latest addition to the long-running Eyewitness series looks at the life of the professional soldier, from Greek hoplites to infantrymen in the trenches of the Somme and today's UN peacekeepers. Eyewitness Soldier follows soldiers through signing up, rising through the ranks, through their experiences in combat, to how they are honoured and remembered.


World War I Poetry

World War I Poetry

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1788880196

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The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.


Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917–1978

Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917–1978

Author: Ronald Hingley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1000386716

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This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russia’s modern authors in the context of their society at the time. Post-revolutionary Russian literature has made a profound impact on the West while still maintaining its traditional role as a vehicle for political struggle at home. Professor Hingley places their lives and work firmly in the setting of the USSR’s social and political structure.


Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present

Author: Joanna B. Michlic

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1512600105

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Examining World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath through the lens of Central and Eastern European Jewish families