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Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571315284
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571207251 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.67In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen 9780701161262
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The complete and definitive edition of poems from the greatest poet of WW1, Wilfred Owen2018 marks a hundred years since the end of the First World War. Owen's death in battle, a few days before the... -
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9781784874407
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent "down some profound dull tunnel" in... -
Poems by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the... -
Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy 9781845952044
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today - this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle... -
Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life by Jane Potter
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.52Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he... -
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 9780141397603
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $4.65'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyesPassed from him to the strong men that were whole.'The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line... -
Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.71Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each... -
Three Poets of the First World War by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War. Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred... -
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen 9781527218253
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $26.16Martin Impey's artistic interpretation of Wilfred Owen's classic poem. Lavishly illustrated with pencil drawings and full colour paintings.Book InformationISBN 9781527218253Author Wilfred OwenFormat... -
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 9780141397603 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $2.51'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyesPassed from him to the strong men that were whole.'The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line... -
Oxford Student Texts: Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems by Helen Cross
Booksplease Price: $18.26One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and... -
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.28The definitive biography of the war poet - 'Dominic Hibberd has probably done more more than any other individual to illuminate Owen's life and work. His new Life is a triumph ... it is difficult to... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9780715631218 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.31The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling... -
War Poet by Jon Stallworthy 9781847772442
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the... -
The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24'Set in an intergalactic war, this powerful story is told from multiple viewpoints and delivers an emotionally wrenching impact.' - Sally Morgan, author of the bestselling Australian classic MY... -
The First World War: A New History by Sir Hew Strachan 9781471134265 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. The popular view of the First... -
The Somme by Sarah Ridley
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24For many people the word 'Somme' sums up the carnage and futility of the First World War. The failure of Allied forces to achieve their objectives at such a huge cost in human lives has resonated in... -
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember by Ana Sampson 9781843175940 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.45Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits... -
My Soul, A Shining Tree Jamila Gavin 9780008617189
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.27A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya. "A truly exceptional novel" - The Bookseller... -
Words From War: A collection of poetry about war by Joseph Coelho 9781444973884
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83A powerful and moving collection of poems written by soldiers and civilians who have experienced different conflicts around the world and throughout history. Each poem is followed by a biography of... -
General Jack's Diary 1914-18 John Terraine 9781474609708
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Captain J. L. Jack was serving with the First Cameronians, one of the earliest British regiments to arrive in France. Almost every day while serving in... -
Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by... -
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As... -
Up the Line to Death by Brian Gardner 9780413595706
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.89An anthology of the poetry of World War I, this collection is more concerned with the War than with poetry, and as such it is a book with a theme. There are 72 poets represented here - including... -
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people... -
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were... -
Duty Calls: Dunkirk by James Holland 9780141332192 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $2.80Duty Calls: Dunkirk by James Holland is a gripping true-to-life story about one of the most dramatic events of World War II.'YOU WANTED TO SEE SOME ACTION - WELL YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW. YOU'RE... -
Siegfried Sassoon by John Stuart Roberts 9781843581383 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn Stuart Roberts was the editor of Everyman and Heart of the Matter and is a former Head of Television,... -
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne 9781035920334
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share... -
Collected Poems of Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780374526917
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $37.37Spain's greatest 20th-century poet and most influencial modernist speaks to a new generation of readers in this revised edition of his complete poetical works.A revised edition of this major writer's... -
Owen and the Soldier Lisa Thompson 9781781128657
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.01A touching story of loss and remembrance from Lisa Thompson, the award-winning author of The Goldfish Boy and The Light Jar. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2020 A... -
Poems of the Great War: An Anthology 1914-1918 by Christopher Navratil
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42This collection featuring nearly 50 memorable poems from some of the best writers of the time: Rupert Brooke, Siegried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Ivan Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edward... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $29.08The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney... -
100 Poems By 100 Poets by Harold Pinter
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80100 Poems by 100 Poets will serve both to introduce the diffident to the finest poetry in the English language, and to reward the devoted with its challenging choices and delightful surprises.About... -
Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.80Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random -... -
The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby Alex Bowlby 9781474623261
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.76'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan'Extraordinary realism' SUNDAY TIMES'A touch of the Somme and more than a hint of Wilfred...