Epitaph for a poet

摘要

The soldier-poets of the 1914-18 war require no introduction; their poems are well-known, their lives repeatedly retold. By contrast, those who died during the second world war dwell in comparative obscurity. This excellent, absorbing biography rescues one. Frank Thompson was killed in 1944 aged 23, younger even than Rupert Brooke had been when he died in 1915, and in similarly futile and tragic circumstances.