Wednesday, February 25, 2015

On The Western Front...

Time to travel back a hundred years, to the terrible days of WWI.  Here are some of the British poems of the era.

Neither Wilfred Owen nor Rupert Brooke survived the conflict, with Owen being killed in action just a week before the Armistice,  Brooke died from sepsis following a mosquito bite while sailing for Gallipoli with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.  Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were both decorated (Military Cross) for bravery.


Attack
Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC (1886-1967)

Read by Gemma Arterton




Dulce Et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen MC (1893-1918)

Read by Christopher Eccleston




The Soldier

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Read by Sophie Okonedo



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