Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

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Service served as an ambulance driver in World War One, and these poems — written between 1914 and 1916 — are among the most honest and unsparing of the war's literary documents, lacking the idealism of Brooke and anticipating the bitterness of Owen and Sassoon. They were enormously popular and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. As reading texts, the narrative ballads offer vivid, accessible entry points into the war experience.