Description
Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the Battle of Sambre, aged 25, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of World War I.
Endorsements
“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” — The New York Times Book Review