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The poetry English soldiers wrote during the Great War is some of the most renowned in the English speaking world. Did WWI similarly inspire poetry in German, French, and/or Russia? And if so, how does it thematically compare to poems like “The Soldier” or “Dulce et Decorum Est”?

by /u/BolsheMick in /r/AskHistorians

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