Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during the Advanced Military Studies program.

It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...

The lost crew were from Birmingham, Plymouth, Yorkshire, Essex and Lincolnshire A poem for a Lancaster Bomber crew who never returned home has been shared with their relatives, 80 years after ...

Perhaps he has a point - in the decades after the war, poems were anthologized, a process that disconnected the work from the events that inspired it. Depictions of specific attacks became generic ...