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Published to coincide with performances of the play 'Will Havey's War' at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham from 30th July to 2nd August 2014. Part of the Gloucestershire Remembers World War I programme. Discovered only recently, this unpublished novel by F.W. Harvey tells the fictionalized tale of Will Harvey and his journey from a rural Gloucestershire childhood to the frontline trenches of the First World War. It is a sentimental story of young boy finding love for the first time and being separated from it, it is also a story of how war changes men forever. The novel offers a rare insight into the poet’s own experiences of the First World War and his struggle to come to terms with his lost youth.
26th October, 2016 in Military
Combining his interest in the First World War and his admiration for war poets, author Andrew Ferguson has produced Ghosts of War: A History of World War I in Poetry and Prose. Numerous accounts of the Great War are written from an Anglo-centric viewpoint but Ghosts of War includ…
