Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World WarsThe accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb. |
Contents
We Hate As One Poems of the First World | |
When This Bleeding War is Over Songs of the First World | |
Tomorrow the Whole World Fascism and the lyric | |
There is No Need for Alarm Poems of the Allies 193945 | |
My Lilli of the Lamplight Songs of the Second World | |
World War Three Blues The Lyric and August 1945 | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Other editions - View all
Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars Brian Murdoch Limited preview - 2002 |
Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars Brian Murdoch No preview available - 1990 |
Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars Brian Murdoch No preview available - 1990 |
Common terms and phrases
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