Rudyard Kipling’s enthusiastic support for World War I cost him his 18-year-old son, John, who died at the Battle of Loos in 1915, living up to his father’s vision.
The doomed young English poet Wilfred Owen achieved posthumous fame for his heartbreaking poems about common soldiers in World War I, but another British writer has seen his reputation sink precipitously as a result of his quite different take on the war. Read more