M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...

It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt the lure of battle. “He was not eager to die,” Michael Korda writes of Siegfried ...

Owen is considered one of the greatest war poets, thanks in part to his moving ... TNT turned their skin yellow and caused their hair to fall out. Despite this, female munition workers were ...