Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

His poetry is equally as powerful ... "Hamish Mann is now part of the canon of First World War poets he so admired. "Our forthcoming sale puts a human face on the suffering of war and presents a rare ...

James Alexander Mann, who was an aspiring writer and actor from Edinburgh, died just five days after his 21st birthday after ...