First World War Centenary News Archive

Publisher’s Description:’In An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd brilliantly evokes the private dramas of a generation upswept by the winds of war. By turns comic and quietly wise, An Ice-Cream War deftly renders lives capsized by violence, chance, and the irrepressible human capacity for love.’

Publisher’s Description: ‘This, the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows, for example, that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and that the view of ‘the women at home’, ignorant and idealistic, was quite false.’