Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire.

Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war’s tragic arc and lethal fury.

His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, “the handsomest young man in England” and perh...