1945 Poems from Italy: Verses Written by Members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy, July 1943 - March 1944

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Signed

In the publisher's original crushed morocco binding. Mounted on the front board is a portion of the silk ribbon from the Italy Star medal, a military campaign medal awarded to subjects of the British Commonwealth who served in the Italian Campaign from 1943-1945.

A limited edition work, with this being no. 41 of 100 signed limited edition copies, flat signed by Siegfried Sassoon himself, who offers the foreword to this work.

A collection of wartime poetry featuring poems composed by soldiers serving in the Eighth Army during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. 

The volume contains 72 poems by 47 writers, and were chosen from nearly six-hundred entries submitted, all written in Italy during the first nine months of the campaign.