The Wilfred Owen Association & IWM London present
Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Max Egremont
Max Egremont
THE LAST PHASE
How bad was the Allies’ position in the last months of 1917, after Ypres and Passchendaele? Was it possible to imagine defeat? Why was this transformed during 1918, after the huge German advances of the spring? Was there any truth in the Germans’ ‘stab in the back’ claim that politicians had betrayed a still defiant military? The roots of the catastrophe of the 1930s are already apparent in the last year of the First World War. But can they be traced further back, even to 1914?
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
FROM OWEN’S ‘DOOMED YOUTH’ TO HIS DOOMED YOUTH
Owen’s full flowering was a late one. Fertilized by his meeting with Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital for Neurasthenic Officers in August 1917 and nurtured by his own experiences of the ‘pity of war’, it died with Owen himself in one of the last Allied engagements in November 1917, the Battle of the Sambre.
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