The Folio Book of War Poetry

This anthology collects poems about war from several centuries and several conflicts, not from one campaign alone. Typical pieces include a soldier's address before battle, an elegy for the dead, a civilian's view of siege or raid, and later trench or air-war lyrics that record mud, noise, and leave. Speakers are combatants, nurses, and observers. The poems are independent; there is no narrative that binds them into a history. The book is a thematic reader in war verse, not a military chronicle and not the collected work of one soldier-poet.

Bound in cloth printed and blocked with a camouflage design by Jonathan Lloyd. Green slipcase front blocked in silver with a design.