Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: World War I Poetry: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): How to Die Link to Collected Poems Wilfred Owen (1893-1918): Anthem for a Doomed Youth Link to Collected Poems Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Herbert Read (1893-1968): The Happy Warrior W.N.Hodgson (1893-1916): Before Action Wilfred Gibson (1878-1962) Back Link to ...

Prose and Poetry during World War One ...

World War I posters by James Montgomery Flagg, Howard Chandler Christy and other artists designed to mobilize support for the war on the home front, from recuiting to campaigning for Liberty Bonds and food production.

Under the patronage of UNESCO, the great museums of Europe (Caen, Vienna, London, Peronne, Verdun, Bonn, Berlin and Paris) are holding a joint exhibition of their resources by painters who were contemporary with the First World War. Each work is accompanied by a detailed description which puts the artist in the context of the period in an extraordinary intertwining of art and history.

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No Man's Land The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton Angela Davis and Sarah McKinnon Six months after the end of the First World War, Mary Riter Hamilton undertook a special mission for the War Amputations Club of British Columbia. Her task was to provide paintings of the battlefields of France and Belgium for publication in a veterans' magazine, The Gold Stripe. She subsequently ...

Corps of Engineers U.S. Army Official War Artists Prisoners and Wounded Unknown Medium Harvey Dunn It was in July 1917 that the idea of official war artists to be sent to France was proposed by the Committee on Public Information, which had been recently organized to coordinate propaganda for the war effort. The U.S. Army Signal Corps took up the idea but at first its plans came to nothing. In ...

An online discussion list about poetry in First World War.

World War I Musical Scores (WW1) (copies).

Poems of Glory, Disillusionment and Despair 1914-1945 Rupert Brooke Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, ... Bruno Frank Rejoice, friends! that we are alive And that we're young and ...