[Includes] some first-class verse unfamiliar to many readers ... well worth reading.

Times Literary Supplement

Here is a superb anthology and work of scholarship that, in an astonishing feat of literary archaeology, cuts through the smoke and noise of the First World War to present us with poems that have been hidden in history's unforgiving mud for far too long. The poems are illuminated and set in context and I hope that they will now take their place alongside the small number of First World War poems that everyone knows so well. Here is poetry's abundance in the face of horror.

Ian McMillan, Poet

Ruzich successfully broadens the scope of First World War poetry and has created an important volume of both literary and historic value.

The Great War Group

A rich, valuable, and rare collection of poetry from the Great War.

Roads to the Great War

Their experiences were real; their suffering immense, yet the works of Owen, Sassoon and Graves represent a narrow aperture of wartime experience. In her extraordinary new anthology, Constance Ruzich brings together some of these familiar figures with an impressive range of lesser known voices.

Verseville

Constance Ruzich tells the story of the Great War through an astonishingly wide array of poetic voices of different races, nationalities, and temperaments. After each poem, Ruzich paints short, penetrating portraits of these poets, their world, and the insights they captured in verse. We are in Ruzich's debt for expanding the canon and for enabling us to hear wonderful voices most of us have never heard before.

Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, USA