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A review by kakrucke
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
This is not a book to read if you want an overview of WWI, as it illustrates a very particular slice of experience, namely poetry and some songs by British soldiers. However, its particularity goes hand in hand with great depth. It is quite moving.