The Poet's War

By Francis O'Neill

It is Europe's darkest time in near memory. American warrior poet Alistair Stears, thrown into Italian WWI through his mother's love for an Italian colonel, experienced a convoy of the dying through burning provinces of Italy in the terrible retreat of 1917. It brought from him the great English poem of the Italian war.

One war later, all gracious things await destruction, knowledge is burned, thought coarsened, manners trashed, perverted faith and truth follow the dictators' flags-vultures to grace. Stears is a famous poet now, married into German-Italian nobility and determined with his wife to fight the Axis powers. He risks everything to protect Italy and all else he loves. He finds that the bravest and fiercest resistance may be the rightness of a poem, the closing of a letter, the welcome of guests, the embrace of a bride, faith toward a fallen friend-and that it may also come from the barrel of a gun. Spanning both world wars, The Poet's War finds loyalty, patriotism, war, deception, intrigue, romance, love, and death swept up in a maelstrom that spans generations and changes Europe forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3951979607
• ISBN13: 9783951979601
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Gustav Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A literary classic. Enthralling. Read and reread.

The Poet's War is destined to become a literary classic, a book for the ages. Unflinching yet hopeful. Enthralling. Rich. Intense. Superbly crafted. One is glancingly reminded of A Dance to the Music of Time. Readers or watchers of this series who loved this work will be great admirers of an even more striking novel in The Poet's War. I have just completed my first reading, will reread in time along with many of the references, and cannot recommend this novel more highly. In time, I am convinced that it will find its way into our literary canon.