""First published 1984. Second published 2014. First published in paperback 2015""--Title page verso.

Edition and series statements from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

CONTENTS: From the Book of Exodus -- From The Second Book of Samuel -- From The Iliad / Homer -- Thermopylae / Simonides -- Hymn to the Fallen / Anonymous -- From The Aeneid / Virgil --From The Odes / Horace -- From The Gododdin / Aneirin -- Lament of the Frontier Guard / Rihaku --The Finnesburh Fragment / Anonymous -- The Battle of Brunanburh / Anonymous -- The Battle of Maldon / Anonymous -- From The Song of Roland / Anonymous -- The Lament of Maev Leith-Dherg / Anonymous -- The Fly / Miroslav Holub -- From The Knight's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- To the Cambro-Britons, and their harp, his Ballad of Agincourt / Michael Drayton -- From Astrophel, A Pastoral Elegie Upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney / Edmund Spenser -- From The Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York / Samuel Daniel --'Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead' / Henry Howard -- From The Fruits of War / George Gascoigne -- Farewell to Arms / George Peele -- A Burnt Ship / John Donne -- The Soldier Going to the Field / Sir William Davenant -- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars / Richard Lovelace -- An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland / Andrew Marvell -- On the Late Massacre in Piedmont / John Milton -- From Paradise Lost -- Song: Written at Sea in the First Dutch War, the night before an Engagement / Charles Sackville -- From Annus Mirabilis / John Dryden -- From The Spanish Descent / Daniel Defoe --From The Campaign: A Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough / Joseph Addison -- The Battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey -- Rule, Brittania! / James Thomson -- From The Vanity of Human Wishes / Samuel Johnson -- The Drum -- John Scott Of Amwell (1730-1783) - - Ye Mariners of England / Thomas Campbell -- Hohenlinden -- Fears in Solitude / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Old Man Travelling / William Wordsworth -- 'It is not to be thought of that the flood' -- To the Men of Kent -- November, 1806 -- from The Revolt of Islam / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna / Charles Wolfe -- Advice to a Raven in Russia / Joel Barlow -- 47. The Year 1812 / Adam Mickiewicz -- Russia 1812 / Victor Hugo -- At Vshchizh / Fyodor Tyutchev -- Incident of the French Camp / Robert Browning -- from The Dynasts / Thomas Hardy -- The Destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron -- from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage -- from Don Juan -- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year / Lord Macaulay -- from Horatius / William Edmondstoune Aytoun - - from Edinburgh after Flodden / Matthew Arnold -- from Sohrab and Rustum / Lord Tennyson -- The Revenge -- The Charge of the Light Brigade -- from Maud -- The Due of the Dead / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Beat! Beat! Drums! / Walt Whitman -- Come up from the Fields Father -- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night -- The Wound-Dresser -- Reconciliation -- The Portent / Herman Melville -- Ball's Bluff -- Shiloh -- The College Colonel -- 'My Portion is Defeat -- today -- Emily Dickinson -- 'My Triumph lasted till the Drums' -- 'Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind' / Stephen Crane -- from Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration / James Russell Lowell -- The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Ode to the Confederate Dead / Allen Tate -- Last Evening / Rainer Maria Rilke -- from Eighteen-Seventy / Arthur Rimbaud -- Arithmetic on the Frontier / Rudyard Kipling -- Tommy -- He Fell among Thieves / Sir Henry Newbolt -- Vitai Lampada --Embarcation / Thomas Hardy -- The Colonel's Soliloquy -- A Christmas Ghost-Story -- Drummer Hodge -- A Wife in London -- The Man He Killed -- 'On the idle hill of summer' / A.E. Housman -- 'Soldier from the wars returning' -- Grenadier -- Lancer -- Astronomy -- Slain / T.W.H. Crosland -- War / Edgar Wallace -- Bridge-Guard in the Karroo / Rudyard Kipling -- The Dykes -- The Volunteer / Herbert Asquith -- Men Who March Away / Thomas Hardy -- In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' -- Peace / Rupert Brooke -- The Dead -- The Soldier -- Breakfast / Wilfrid Gibson -- 'I saw a man this Morning' / Patrick Shaw-Stewart -- Into Battle / Julian Grenfell - - In Flanders Fields / John McCrae -- Magpies in Picardy / T.P. Cameron Wilson -- 'All the hills and vales along' / Charles Sorley -- 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead' -- Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries / A.E. Housman -- Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Range- Finding / Robert Frost -- The Death of a Soldier / Wallace Stevens -- Calligram 15 May 1915 / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Little Song of the Maimed / Benjamin Peret -- On Being Asked for a War Poem / W.B. Yeats -- Sixteen Dead Men -- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death -- Reprisals -- The Second Coming -- Only a Boche / Robert W. Service -- Tipperary Days -- The Redeemer / Siegfried Sassoon -- Christ and the Soldier -- 'They' -- The Hero - - The General -- Glory of Women -- Everyone Sang -- In Memoriam (Easter 1915) / Edward Thomas -- The Cherry Trees -- Rain -- As team's head brass -- To His Love / Ivor Gurney -- Ballad of the Three Spectres -- First Time In --. The Silent One -- On Receiving News of the War / Isaac Rosenberg -- August 1914 -- Break of Day in the Trenches -- Dead Man's Dump -- Returning, We Hear the Larks -- Anthem for Doomed Youth / Wilfred Owen -- Dulce Et Decorum Est -- Exposure -- Insensibility -- The Send- Off -- Futility -- Strange Meeting -- The Sentry -- Spring Offensive -- The Dead Fox Hunter / Robert Graves - - Sergeant-Major Money -- The Legion -- Recalling War -- The Persian Version -- Two Voices / Edmund Blunden -- The Zonnebeke Road -- Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July 1917 -- Report on Experience -- 1916 seen from 1921 -- Battlefield / Richard Aldington -- Winter Warfare / Edgell Rickword -- Trench Poets -- 'my sweet old etcetera' / E.E. Cummings -- 'next to of course god america i' -- 'i sing of Olaf glad and big' --In the Dordogne / John Peale Bishop -- from In Parenthesis / David Jones -- For the Fallen / Laurence Binyon -- from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound -- Triumphal March / T.S. Eliot �- Elegy in a Country Churchyard / G.K. Chesterton -- Mesopotamia 1917 / Rudyard Kipling -- from Epitaphs of the War 1914 -- Subalterns / Elizabeth Daryush -- August 1914 / May Wedderburn Cannan -- Rouen - - 'After the War' -- MCMXIV / Philip Larkin -- The Great War / Vernon Scannell -- Six Young Men / Ted Hughes -- Platform One -- War Blinded / Douglas Dunn -- Wounds / Michael Longley -- from Autumn Journal / Louis MacNeice - - A Letter from Aragon / John Cornford -- Full Moon at Tierz: Before the Storming of Huesca -- To Margot Heinemann -- 'The Italian soldier shook my hand' / George Orwell --. 'Eyes of men running, falling, screaming' / Anonymous -- A Moment of War / Laurie Lee -- Benicasim / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Spain 1037 / W.H. Auden -- Two Armies / Stephen Spender -- Ultima Ratio Regum -- A Thousand Killed / Bernard Spencer -- To a Conscript of 1040 / Herbert Read -- The Lilacs and the Roses / Louis Aragon -- The Stand-To / C. Day Lewis -- Where are the War Poets? -- Ecce Homo / David Gascoyne -- Spring MCMXL -- A Book in the Ruins / Czeslaw Milosz -- Still Falls the Rain / Edith Sitwell -- from The Walls Do Not Fall / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] -- The Streets of Laredo / Louis MacNeice -- Unseen Fire / R.N.

Currey -- Prize for Good Conduct / Kenneth Allott -- Lessons of the War / Henry Reed -- All day it has rained / Alun Lewis -- Dawn on the East Coast -- Goodbye -- Song -- from The Foreign Gate / Sidney Keyes -- Timoshenko --from The Wilderness -- The Tomb of Lt John Learmonth, AIF / John Manifold -- John Anderson / Keith Douglas -- Gallantry -- Vergissmeinnicht -- Aristocrats -- El Alamein / John Jarmain -- Green, Green is El Aghir / Norman Cameron -- Soldiers Bathing / F.T. Prince -- The Middle of a War / Roy Fuller -- Careless Love / Stanley Kunitz -- In Distrust of Merits / Marianne Moore -- The Fury of Aerial Bombardment / Richard Eberhart.

""Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additional poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton, among others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.""--Publisher's website.