{"product_id":"muse-of-fire-world-war-i-as-seen-through-the-lives-of-the-soldier-poets-9781631496882","title":"Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eMuse of Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eAlone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHero\u003c\/em\u003e, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation--destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England--and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that took over 25,000,000 lives. In a sweeping narrative that echoes \u003cem\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/em\u003e, Korda recounts these four years of a civilization destroying itself and portrays the lives and anguished deaths of the young men who unforgettably illuminated it. As the success of Pat Barker's \u003cem\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e, the remake of \u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e and the images of brutal trench warfare in today's Ukraine demonstrate, contemporary interest in \"the war to end war\" remains high.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631496882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2023 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Korda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43644054208693,"sku":"9781631496882","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0a24e9ee-a5b1-46bf-bbef-b5d1dd4f5f0a.jpg?v=1708446290","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/muse-of-fire-world-war-i-as-seen-through-the-lives-of-the-soldier-poets-9781631496882","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}