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Matthew Vaughn turns his reckless dad-humour energy to the first world war for a tongue-in-cheek history lesson with some surprising twists
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd t...
Call me un-American, if you like, but I have a problem with Memorial Day. So many of the speeches and ceremonies seem to celebrate our war dead as glorious heroes
On life’s ‘off-ramp,’ Archbishop Chaput offers timely thoughts This is the cover of the book “Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by retired Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia. (CNS photo/courtesy Henry Holt and Company) By Laura Bramon Hassan • Catholic News Service • Posted April 9, 2021 “Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by Charles J. Chaput. Henry Holt & Company (New York, 2021). 272 pp, $25.99. “Memento mori” is in vogue these days, from death doulas to funereal composting to hipster reconsiderations of the in...
Others will take solace and inspiration from the poetry from Britain’s greatest war. The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes English lecturer Dr Stuart Lee on Oxford University’s First World War Poetry Digital Archive. According to BBC’s HistoryExtra, “some 2,200 writers published poetry about the Great War between 1914 and 1918, 25 per cent of them women and fewer than 20 per cent men in uniform”. Below are some of the best, written d...