'It is all here, the mud and rats of the trenches, the hellish noise of the bombardment, the insane waste of life, the high heroism and the bitter cynicism' -- Illustrated London News
'Mr Gardner steers his course... with skill and discrimination' -- Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times
'Mr Gardner, who has chosen, introduced and put notes to this admirable anthology, shows the First World War poets in all moods' -- The Times
'To read through this anthology is ... to live the years
1914-1918, adding to the images of battle which most of us have already, the actual feelings expressed by the soldier poets who lived, and died, through trench warfare' -- Times Education Supplement
Susan Hill wrote ^Strange Meeting(2) in 1971 about the relationships that were formed in the war. INSERT FACT it was common for soldiers to form this kind of friendship/comradeship.
The second novel (3) was written in 1930 and is a female ambulance driver’s view of the horrors of war. although it is not just a female work but is written much later it is by far the most graphic and perhaps most vividly describes the attitudes to war. The novels also
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“Naught broken save this body, lost but breath”