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A review by kierscrivener
Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics by Osbert Sitwell, Hannah Berry, Eddie Campbell, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Liesbeth de Stercke, Kathryn Immonen, Charles Sorley, Danica Novgorodoff, Peter Kuper, Robert Graves, Stuart Immonen, Simon Gane, Stephen R. Bissette, Kevin Huizenga, Garth Ennis, Siegfried Sassoon, Pat Mills, Anders Nilsen, Thomas Hardy, Francis Ledwidge, Sarah Glidden, Hunt Emerson, Patrick MacGill, Isabel Greenberg, George Pratt, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Carol Tyler, Luke Pearson, Rupert Brooke, Phil Winslade, David Hitchcock, Rudyard Kipling, James Lloyd, Sammy Harkham, Lilli Carré, Chris Duffy
4.0
"Do not survive the bitterness that war begets: the century of carnage since your slaughter made cynics out of very nearly all"-Siegfried Sassoon
I found this book beautiful and tragic. I especially was drawn to Owen and Sassoon's poems and the reflection on how the war affected the minds of those involved. The illistrations really added to many of the poems especially the Next War.
Quotes:
"And not the peaceful delivered at such dreadful cost. Mishandled just as surely as the war, it did no more than offer up a bottle that your sons would have to finish."-Siegfried Sassoon
"And yet the love you bore for one another shine like sunlight on a scratch of steal. And love like that is never wasted, not even on the doomed." -Siegfried Sassoon
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest, to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie, dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori."-Wilfred Owen
"What more fitting memorial for the fallen than that their children should fall for the same cause."-Osbert Sitwell, The Next War
"And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad unless they lose control of ugly thoughts."-Siegfried Sassoon, The Repression of The War Experience
I found this book beautiful and tragic. I especially was drawn to Owen and Sassoon's poems and the reflection on how the war affected the minds of those involved. The illistrations really added to many of the poems especially the Next War.
Quotes:
"And not the peaceful delivered at such dreadful cost. Mishandled just as surely as the war, it did no more than offer up a bottle that your sons would have to finish."-Siegfried Sassoon
"And yet the love you bore for one another shine like sunlight on a scratch of steal. And love like that is never wasted, not even on the doomed." -Siegfried Sassoon
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest, to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie, dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori."-Wilfred Owen
"What more fitting memorial for the fallen than that their children should fall for the same cause."-Osbert Sitwell, The Next War
"And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad unless they lose control of ugly thoughts."-Siegfried Sassoon, The Repression of The War Experience