3.5/5: pretty good but wouldn’t necessarily recommend (even if one was interested in poetry and photographs from ww1, I feel like a google search would suffice)

Good points: inclusion of poems from women and of one poem from a foreign soldier (someone who’s home was colonized by the same people he was now risking his life for); allowed me to discover a new WW1 poet to look into (Siegfried Sassoon); the photographs allowed for an immersive experience (life in combat, in the trenches, life amongst women back “Home”)

Not so good points: was looking for more heart wrenching poems, the best poems included I was already familiar with (Wilfred Owen’s works), would have preferred very intimate looks at war rather than a bunch of poems saying in different words that “war is bad” (didn’t looove the approach Waters took when selecting the poems though in the end I am happy with the many gems I found!