[Baker, Kenneth, Editor].

THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

London: Faber And Faber, [1996]. 1996.

1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Royal 8vo, 598pp.including index. A very fine, fresh copy in perfect dustwrapper. A handsome anthology of the poetry of war throughout the ages divided into sections dealing with such matters as "The Patriotic Imperative", "Recruitment", "W eapons", "leadership", "Conscientious Objection", "Views of Death" and " Gallantry and Heroism". From Homer to Larkin, Shakespeare to Akmatova, Whitman to Ted Hughes, Baker has collected an arresting & incomparable selection.

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