So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One? A select group of well-educated soldier officers, including Wilfred Owen, came to view the ...

Even decorated war heroes were now wondering what they’d risked their lives for. In 1917 one of them, the poet Siegfried Sassoon went public with his doubts about the war. In the trenches his ...

It’s vulgar. It’s dirty. It’s highbrow. Odesa loves its opera, its theater and, perhaps most of all, its poets, who since Russia’s invasion have written a chronicle of life in wartime.