Muse of fire : World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets

With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation --destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England -- and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a wa...