THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:PoemsConsecrationLord's LeaveLast PostThe Old BoysRuddy Young GingerThe Ballad of Ensign JoyBond and FreeShell-Shock in ArrasThe Big ThingForerunnersUppingham SongWooden CrossesMemoirNotes of a Camp Follower on the Western FrontE. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and a war poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle. Hornung's works are also remembered for giving insight into the social mores of late 19th and early 20th century British society.