Notes and links on literature related to World War 1

Click on a title or topic below:

• The aftermath for those who returned - a really star site that you will find hard to leave
• WW1 Literature for Young Adults
• Vimy Ridge virtual reality tour
• A Victory Worse than Defeat? - analysis of the outcome of the war
• Propaganda images used to further recruitment - interactive
• WW1 poetry - essential online lessons
• Wilfred Owen - interactive introduction to Dulce et Decorum Est
• War Girls - a poem by Jessie Pope - with notes
• interactive site on the poem Base Details
• Spartacus site - comprehensive coverage of the literature, journalism, etc.
• WW1 poetry digital archive (link to Oxford University award-winning site) here
• My notes on changing attitudes to the war in poetry of the time.
• Read a soldier's letters home and to his sweetheart right through the conflict.
• Interesting set of resources, especially on women in the war
• 2007 Observer article on 109 year old Harry Patch, sole living survivor of Passchendaele
• Notes for Autumn series of Literary Lectures