“I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.”

—  Richard Eberhart

The Poetry of War 1939-45 ed. Ian Hamilton, London 1965
"The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"

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