Robert Service drove an ambulance in France, and he wrote these verses, as his foreword says, in lousy barns by candlelight and in flooded dugouts. The poems give voice to volunteers and convalescents, a Scots private with a haggis, a Cockney’s odyssey, the man from Athabaska and a soldier wrestling a German in the dark of a shell hole.
Rough, rhythmic and unflinching, war verse written for ordinary soldiers rather than the drawing room. Download the free EPUB.