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Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. [2] He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
"September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written shortly after the German invasion of Poland, which would mark the start of World War II. It was first published in The New Republic issue of 18 October 1939, and in book form in Auden's collection Another Time (1940).
"The Life That I Have" (sometimes referred to as "Yours") is a short poem written by Leo Marks and used as a poem code in the Second World War. In the war, famous poems were used to encrypt messages. This was, however, found to be insecure because enemy cryptanalysts were able to locate the original from published sources. Marks countered this ...
Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City (German: Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt ) is a 2005 poetry collection by the German writer Durs Grünbein . It consists of 49 poems about the city of Dresden , lamenting its developments and destruction in February 1945 when the Allies of World War II subjected it to heavy aerial bombardment .
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov (Russian: Константи́н Миха́йлович Си́монов, 28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, [3] arguably most famous for his 1941 poem "Wait for Me".
In 1942 Aleksandr Lokshin composed a symphonic poem for mezzo-soprano and orchestra on the verses of Wait for me. Lokshin composed later a version of the same work for baritone, piano and flute-piccolo. [8] In 1943, the poem Wait for Me was turned into a film also entitled Wait for Me that was co-written by Simonov and starred Serova.
The poem code is a simple and insecure, cryptographic method which was used during World War II by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) to communicate with their agents in Nazi-occupied Europe. The method works by having the sender and receiver pre-arranging a poem to use. The sender chooses a set number of words at random from the ...