An LP recording which is a commemoration in poetry and prose on the 50th aniversay of the beginning of WW1. "This is not, by intention, merely an anthology of the best prose and poetry of the First World War. It is rather an attempt to use the anthology form in a dramatic way, in order to recreate some of the changing thoughts and attitudes of combatants and non-combatants. And because the anthology is concerned with men's minds as well as their bodies, it also inevitably traces the development of a new collective conscientious awareness. With three exceptions, all the material was written during the war. (Only the excerpts from Frank Richards' autobiography Old Soldiers Never Die and David Jones' In Parenthesis- one of the finest of all war books- and the closing poem by Siegfried Sassoon are retrospective.) The words therefore have an immediac that no mere commentary can ever equal; and they are best left to speak for themselves."