A History of England in 25 Poems Television & film (Children's / Teenage) In the summer of 1914

In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from

why go to bed angry when you could stay up and plot diabolical retribution Let the games begin

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it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was no more than victors’ justice

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A History of England in 25 Poems Television & film (Children's / Teenage) In the summer of 1914This is the history of England told in a new way: glimpsed through twenty five remarkable poems written down between the eighth century and today, which connect us directly with the nation's past, and the experiences, emotions and imaginations of those who lived it. These poems open windows onto wildly different worlds from the public to the intimate, from the witty to the savage, from the playful to the wistful. They take us onto battlefields, inside