• Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• 389 pages
• Non-Fiction: History, Biography

Edward Thomas was the most captivating of the First World War poets. This haunting account of his final five years follows him from his beloved English countryside to the battlefield in France where he lost his life.

When he met the American poet Robert Frost in 1913, Thomas was tormented by feelings of failure in his work and in his marriage. With Frost's encouragement he began writing poem after poem as he finally found the expression he had spent his life searching for.

But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost returned to New England while Thomas enlisted and went to fight in France. It is these roads taken - and not taken - that are at the heart of this unforgettable book, which culminates in Thomas' tragic death on Easter Monday 1917.