Featuring over 250 poems by 80 poets, this is the largest and most comprehensive anthology of World War I poetry available. It includes: great classic poems of the war, the war's most popular and propagandist verse, war poetry of well-known fiction writers, women poets of the war, poetry exploring the common experiences of the war, extracts from diaries, personal letters and autobiographies of poets and contemporaries, historical and biographical background material, the role of poets in the war, and many photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams.