The Wastelands
BY SOPHIA HELMKAMP (Title used with regards to T.S. Eliot) There is sadness even when you celebrate;Death follows on the footprints left by life;There is passion burns behind the greatest hate;And words there are cut deeper than a knife. In the morning you may wake to joy or sorrow,In the darkness you may dream of …...
A Generation Lost
BY SOPHIA HELMKAMP A poem inspired by Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, to the meter and rhyme scheme of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est. How would it change me, I have asked, to seeAmid the blood a generation lost?Why is that war forgotten when to beAmong them was to pay …...
Tolkien's War: The History Behind the Lord of the Rings
BY GRAEME RESTORICK
Tolkien was lucky to survive. Front line junior officers were statistically more likely to become casualties than to escape unscathed.
Stormtroopers and Strumtruppen: How German History Inspired Props of the Star Wars Galactic Empire
BY PAUL PFINGSTL
The word and even the concept of “Stormtrooper” comes from the assault tactics developed by the German Army in the First World War.
Of Local Importance: A Movie Review of “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain”
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI
Not only is this film lovably laughable, but it also typifies a fierce pride in locality and community that defines Welshness and Britishness
