The first volume of a biography which covers Sasson's life up to the end of the First World War. For her research the author used previously unseen private letters and papers.[...]
Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'his poetry is so very brave, so unco[...]