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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918) was an English and Welsh poet and soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works-most of which were published posthumously-include "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting". His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially "War, and the pity of War", and "the Poetry is in the pity". ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Mercè Rodoreda, Frederic Manning, R. C. Sherriff, Cornelius Ryan, Willi Heinrich, William Douglas Lansford, E. M. Nathanson. Excerpt:Cornelius Ryan , (5 June 1920 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history , especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 D-Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974). Early life He was born in Dublin and educated at Synge Street CBS , Portobello . He was an altar-boy at St. Kevin's Church (Roman Catholic), Harrington Street and studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. Ryan moved to London in 1940, and became a war correspondent for the The Daily Telegraph in 1941. He initially covered the air war in Europe , flew along on fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth and Ninth United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), and then joined General George S. Patton 's Third Army and covered its actions until the end of the European war. He transferred to the Pacific theater in 1945, and then to Jerusalem in 1946. Ryan emigrated to the United States in 1947 to work for TIME , where he reported on the postwar atomic testing done by the United States in the Pacific. Then reported for TIME on the Israeli war in 1948. This was followed by work for other magazines, including Collier's Weekly and Reader's Digest . He married Kathryn Morgan (1925-1993), a novelist, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1951. Career What I write about is not war but the courage of man. Cornelius Ryan On a trip to Normandy in 1949 he became interested in telling a more complete story of Operation Overlord . He began compiling information and conducting... ... Read more

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Chapters: The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, Dulce et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Disabled, List of Poems by Wilfred Owen, Futility, to Eros, Insensibility, Mental Cases, Sonnet on Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought Into Action, I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson, Cramped in That Funnelled Hole, Elegy in April and September, at a Calvary Near the Ancre, Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, Spring Offensive, Has Your Soul Sipped?, the Last Laugh, Wild With All Regrets, the Letter, Arms and the Boy, Training, the End, Asleep, the Dead-Beat, 1914, a Terre. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Parable of the Old Man and the Young is a poem by Wilfred Owen which compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. The poem is an allusion to a story in the Bible, Genesis 22:1-18: 1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=387842 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wilfred Owen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 89. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier, and one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known worksmost of which were published posthumouslyinclude "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting". His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially "War, and the pity of War", and "the Poetry is in the pity". He was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre a week before the war ended. In a moment of ghastly irony, the telegram from the War Office announcing his death was delivered to his mother's home as her town's church bells were ringing in celebration of the Armistice. Wilfred Owen was born the eldest of four children in Plas Wilmot; a house near Oswestry in Shropshire on 18 March 1893, of mixed English and Welsh ancestry. At that time, his parents, Thomas and Susan Owen, lived in a comfortable house owned by his grandfather, but, on his death in 1897, the family was forced to move to lodgings in the back streets of Birkenhead. He was educated at the Birkenhead Institute and at Shrewsbury Technical School (now The Wakeman School), and discovered his vocation in 1903 or 1904 during a holiday spent in Cheshire. Owen was raised as an Anglican of the evangelical school, and in his youth was a devout believ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=46525 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wilfred Owen, Barbara Pym, Ian Hunter, Ian Woosnam, George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, Benjamin Till, Paul Evans, William Davies, Susan Elizabeth Gay, Carl Griffiths, Thomas Mainwaring Penson, Walford Davies, Edward Weston, Owen Owen, William Henry Griffith Thomas, Herbie Roberts, Fred Morris, Maurice Parry, Alan Fitzflaad, Darren Ryan, Matt Done, Jack Hampson, Andy Lloyd, Charlie Morris, Harold Whitfield, Robert Davies, Jesse Armstrong, George Williams, Ivor Roberts-Jones. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier, and one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known worksmost of which were published posthumouslyinclude "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting". His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially "War, and the pity of War", and "the Poetry is in the pity". He was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre a week before the war ended. In a moment of ghastly irony, the telegram from the War Office announcing his death was delivered to his mother's home as her town's church bells were ringing in celebration of the Armistice. Wilfred Owen was born the eldest of four children in Plas Wilmot; a house near Oswestry in Shropshire on 18 March 1893, of mixed English and Welsh ancestry. At that time, h...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=46525 ... Read more

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Chapters: King's Regiment (Liverpool) Officers, Manchester Regiment Officers, Wilfred Owen, Frederick George Jackson, Charles Harington Harington, Harold Rawdon Briggs, John Gellibrand, Eric Bols, Alfred Dudley Ward, James Fitzmaurice, Daniel Marcus William Beak, William Alfred Dimoline, James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Jack Churchill, Jonathan Davidson, Charles Henry Pepys Harington, Daniel Hoghton, Edward Cornwallis, J. N. L. Baker, James Burnie, John Joseph Shute, Edward Henry Trotter, A. E. W. Mason, Robert Mcdouall, Rex King-Clark, Wilfrid Freeman, Edward Felix Baxter, Reginald Essenhigh, Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman, Harold Thomas Cawley, John Broadbent, George Stuart Henderson, Kootenay Brown, John Richardson, Henry James Knight, Donald Dickson Farmer, Norman Whitley, George Macdonnell, Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, John Mason, William Thomas Forshaw, Wilfrith Elstob, Willoughby Gwatkin, Frederick Llewelyn Hughes, Andrew Moynihan, Hubert Worthington, Arent Depeyster, Richard Onslow, Charles Harry Coverdale, James Leach, John Mount Batten, Edgar Kinghorn Myles, Athol Alexander Stuart, James Kirk, Sir Henry Webb, 1st Baronet, Alfred Robert Wilkinson, Oswald Austin Reid, Alfred Wood, Henry Wylie Moore, Thomas Evans, Hugh Anthony Prince, Douglas Glover. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 207. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier, and one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=46525 ... Read more

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Wilfred Owen was a poet and one of the first war protesters of modern times. He was killed in action on the Western Front when he was only 25 years old. Book also includes some of his poetry. ... Read more