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How First World War poetry painted a truer picture
Siegfried Sassoon, one of many WW1 poets who transformed literature's landscape, portrayed the conflict with a gritty realism previously unheard
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'The Dead-Beat': Wilfred Owen's poem of despair
Direct and bitter, Wilfred Owen's representation of the unsympathetic military attitude to mental breakdown is a reflection on his own moral fibre
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Vaughan Williams: 'A vivid awareness of how men died'
Written as a direct response to the death he witnessed, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony helped shape the post-war artistic climate
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Four First World War writers who defined the conflict
From the sounding of the first gun, the First World War inspired enormous quantities of literature. Here, we focus on four writers; Henri Barbusse, Ernst Jünger, Vera Brittain and Erich Maria Remarque
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Four First World War composers who defined the conflict
Despite being out of harmony with their usual surroundings, First World War composers George Butterworth, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Holst continued to push musical boundaries
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Four First World War artists who defined the conflict
Works by Wyndham Lewis, Otto Dix, Paul Nash and David Bomberg helped define the Great War, representing the challenging landscapes and the voices of the soldiers who would never return
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Soldier's last letters home: 'We're all ready to lay down everything if needs...
Whether regaling failed attempts at romance or painting vivid images of life in the trenches, intelligence officer Bernard Wilfrid Long maintained contact with his family until his death in 1917
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Ernest Pitcher VC: He stood by his gun as shells started major fires
Victoria Cross winner Ernest Herbert Pitcher - along with the rest of the Dunraven gun crew - maintained position when the going got tough
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