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There Can Be No Area Of Human Experience That Has Generated A Wider Range Of Powerful Feelings Than War. Jon Stallworthy's Classic And Celebrated Anthology Spans Centuries Of Human Experience Of War, From Homer's Iliad, Through The First And Second World Wars, The Vietnam War, And The Wars Fought Since. This New Edition, Published To Mark The Centenary Of The Outbreak Of The First World War, Includes A New Introduction And Additonal Poems From David Harsent And Peter Wyton, Amongst Others. The New Selection Provides Improved Coverage Of The Two World Wars And The Vietnam War, And New Coverage Of The Wars Of The Late Twentieth And Early Twenty-first Centuries. -- Publisher Description. The Bible : From The Book Of Exodus -- From The Second Book Of Samuel -- Homer (c.900 Bc) : From The Iliad -- Simonides (c.556-c.468 Bc) : Thermopylae -- Anonymous (4th Century Bc) : Hymn To The Fallen -- Virgil (70-19 Bc) : From The Aeneid -- Horace (65-8bc) : From The Odes -- Aneirin (6th Century) : From The Gododdin -- Rihaku (8th Century) : Lament Of The Frontier Guard -- Anonymous (8th Century) : The Finnesburh Fragment -- Anonymous (10th Century) : The Battle Of Brunanburh -- Anonymous (11th Cen
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- Author
- Jon Stallworthy
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198704485
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (53 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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