Between the release of his career-defining performances for director John Sturges in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Great Escape (1963), Steve McQueen experimented with his screen persona in ...

This is a theme running through Anthem for Doomed Youth as he shows his disillusionment at religion and the associated ceremonies. In 1913 he went to France for two years to work as a language tutor.

Imagine if this movie review were written in one sentence, a single headlong hurtling race through the intense action of 1917, the heart-stopping anthem for doomed youth from director Sam Mendes.

It will be among the letters he sent to his mother from the front and first drafts of his famous poems Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori and Anthem For Doomed Youth. Siegfried Sassoon's pistol ...

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no ...

TODAY is the 100th anniversary of the UK's entry into the First World War. The poetry that came from that appalling conflict resonates as strongly as ever today. One of the great articulators of ...

If you were to compare Anthem for Doomed Youth with Who's for the Game? by Jessie Pope for example, you could use some of the following points: When writing about these similarities and ...