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Book Title: Some Desperate Glory : the FIRST WORLD War the Poets Knew
Item Length: 8.7in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.7in
Author: MAX Egremont
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Military / WORLD War I, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
