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In Flanders fields and other poems.
- In Flanders fields, by J. McCrae.--The soldier, by R. Brooke.--Death and the flowers, by E. Philpotts.--Sedan, by H. Belloc.--The spires of Oxford, by W. M. Letts.--For Thee they died, by J. Drinkwater.--The anxious dead, by J. McCrae.--Reported missing, by A. G. Keown.--Home at last, by G. K. Chesterton.--Not with vain tears, by R. Brooke.--The clerk, by B. H. M. Hetherington.--Volunteer, by H. Asquith.--Soldier, soldier, by A. Blundell.--Gallipoli.--The day.--The broken soldier, by Katharine Tynan.--Christ in Flanders, by L.W.--Red poppies in the corn, by W. Campbell Galbraith.--A cross in Flanders, by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.--There is a field in Flanders.--The wife of Flanders, by G. K. Chesterton.--A grave in Flanders, by Lord Crewe.--A carol from Flanders, by Frederick Niven.
- Subjects: War poetry.; English poetry.; World War, 1914-1918;
- © s.d., Thomas Y. Crowell,
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- Poetry of the First World War : an anthology / by Kendall, Tim,1970-;
- Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
- Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; English poetry; War poetry, English.;
- © 2013., Oxford University Press,
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- Canadian poetry from World War I : an anthology / by Baetz, Joel,1976-;
- Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.LSC
- Subjects: War poetry, Canadian (English); World War, 1914-1918; Canadian poetry (English);
- © 2009., Oxford University Press,
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- We wasn't pals : Canadian poetry and prose of the First World War / by Meyer, Bruce,1957-; Callaghan, Barry,1937-;
- Includes bibliographical references.An anthology of Canadian poetry, fiction, essays, songs, and illustrations from World War One.LSC
- Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Canadian literature (English);
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The battle of Maldon : together with The homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's son, and The tradition of versification in Old English / by Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973,author.; Grybauskas, Peter,editor.; container of (work):Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.; container of (work):Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Tradition of versification in Old English.; translation of:Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Maldon (Anglo-Saxon poem).English.(Tolkien);
- Includes bibliographical references."First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon. Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as an heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship. J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon 'the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy'. It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth's retainers come to retrieve their duke's body. Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien's own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is Tolkien's bravura lecture, 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English', a wide-ranging essay on the nature of poetic tradition. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been 'the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien's fiction', most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings."--
- Subjects: English poetry;
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- Doctor Zhivago / by Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich,1890-1960.; Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich,1890-1960.Doktor Zhivago.English.; Pevear, Richard,1943-; Volokhonsky, Larissa.;
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects: Political fiction.; Epic literature.; Historical fiction.; War stories.; Classics; Literary;
- © 2010., Pantheon Books,
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- Em / by Thúy, Kim,author.; Fischman, Sheila,translator.; translation of:Thúy, Kim.Em.English.;
- "Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--aimer, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world. Em is a poetic story steeped in history, about those most impacted by the violence and their later accomplishments. In many ways, Em is perhaps Kim Thúy's most personal book, the one in which she trusts her readers enough to share with them not only the pervasive love she feels but also the rage and the horror at what she and so many other children of the Vietnam War had to live through. Written in Kim Thúy's trademark style, near to prose poetry, Em reveals her fascination with connection. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between the rubber plantations of Indochina; daily life in Saigon during the war as people find ways to survive and help each other; Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War; and today's global nail polish and nail salon industry, largely driven by former Vietnamese refugees--and everything in between. Here are human lives shaped both by unspeakable trauma and also the beautiful sacrifices of those who made sure at least some of these children survived"--
- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Experimental fiction.; Immigrants; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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- In memoriam / by Winn, Alice(Alice Mary Felicity),1992-author.;
- "It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action. Their heroic deaths only make the war more exciting. Gaunt, half-German, is busy fighting his own private battle- an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the gorgeous, rich, charming Ellwood-not having a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. Meanwhile, Gaunt's German mother and twin sister ask him to enlist as an officer in the British army to protect the family from the anti-German attacks they're already facing. Gaunt signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him, fueled by his education in Greek heroics and romantic wartime poetry. Before long, most of their classmates have followed suit. Once in the trenches, the boys become intimately acquainted with the harsh realities of war. Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one other, but their friends are all dying, often in front of them, and no one knows when they'll be next"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Gay men; Interpersonal relations; World War, 1914-1918;
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