Agnew, Kate (ed.): War and Peace: A Collection of Classic Poetry and Prose

Wizard Books, paperback Publication Date: October 7, 2004 Publisher Marketing: An anthology of classic poetry and prose exploring the power and the pity of war.  "It is through the literature you'll find in this book that we can all come to a closer understanding of war, how it is to fight it, to live through it, the pain and the pity of it. Only with this kind of understanding universally shared can we one day perhaps really make war a thing of the past."--Michael Morpurgo, from his introduction From "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae (1872-1918): In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. Selected especially for younger readers, War and Peace is a collection of easily accessible yet highly moving poems and prose passages selected from sources ranging from the Bible to the poets of World War I, including some of the best-loved pieces of American literature