Dead at 25, a week before World War I ended, Owen summed up the conflict’s waste and futility.
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The American writer remains as elusive 100 years after his death as he was at the time.
On the first day of the war in 1914, British newspapers published appeals for young men to join the colours, and to fight against Germany. Following the advice of the new Secretary for War, Lord Kitchener…
