Robert Nichols served as an artillery officer in France before shell shock invalided him home. The first book here follows a soldier’s war in sequence, from the summons and farewell through the march, night bombardment and the loss of comrades to the eve of assault. It is followed by the pastoral fantasy A Faun’s Holiday and other lyrics.
A vivid early record of the trenches by a poet who wrote from the gun line itself. Download the free EPUB.