Issue 4

Extent: 40 A4 Pages

Welcome to the fourth issue of our online magazine which we hope you enjoy. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all those visitors who took the time to read our last magazine (Issue 3) online or downloaded it, all 45,357 of you! Let's hope this one is as successful.

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The fourth issue of our Great War Literature MAGAZINE includes articles on:

Continuing our series looking beyond the literature of the First World War and putting it into context, we look at the events which shaped the last six months on the Western Front, the Mesopotamian Front, and the War at Home with the Zeppelin raids and striking miners.

Edith Cavell

The very name of this nurse and patriot came to represent all that was good about the British during the First World War, while also showing the public the very worst side of humanity.

Late 1915: Mini Biographies

David Lloyd George and Douglas Haig.

1915: Literary Links

What were the poets doing towards the end of 1915?

Literary Connections

In this regular feature demonstrating how interconnected the war poets were, we focus on Rudyard Kipling.

The Lady of Loos

A short article on the decorated heroine, Emilienne Moreau.

"All a Poet can do today is warn."

Article by Anglia Battlefield Tours.

Rudyard Kipling

Of the many First World War writers and poets who changed their opinion and style of writing as the war progressed, it could be argued that none did so more markedly or with greater justification than Rudyard Kipling, whose only son, John, was killed on September 27th 1915 at the Battle of Loos.

Bateman's

Article on the home of the Kiplings from 1902.

War Memorials

In this issue we look at the war memorial in Burwash which includes amongst its list of names that of Rudyard Kipling's only son, John.

The War Memorials Trust: Protecting and Conserving our War Memorials

Article on the War Memorials Trust and its work to protect and conserve war memorials across the UK.

A Treat At... The Rose & Crown, Burwash

Susan Inglis and her family get to enjoy the some of the dishes and hospitality on offer at this picturesque country pub in Burwash. And very good it was too!

Book Review

Letters from the Trenches - A Soldier of the Great War by Bill Lamin.

Home Front

As Autumn turns we enjoy warm Home-made Scones and Raspberry Jam [served with lashings of clotted cream- Ed.] and extractsome more excerpts from the 1917 edition of the "Allied Forces Cookery Book".

Poem and Poet

The poem, When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead, and its author, Charles Hamilton Sorley.

We hope you enjoy this issue.