I have translated around 110 so-called War Poems. 

Most of them from “Let The Living Remember”, Soviet War Poetry compiled by L. Lazareva. Translated from original Russian into English by various translators. 

I’ve also some Great War poetry in my personal library. Recently, I’ve added a collection “French Poems of the Great War - 102 poems by 27 poets” (Translated by Ian Higgins). I’ll also recommend One of the largest anthologies of poetry of the first World War, “Minds at War - The Poetry and Experience of the First World War” edited by David Roberts, and “Cockerels and Vultures” published by Saxon Books. 

The last one has a story behind – someone got a 90-year-old slim volume of poetry in a jumble sale in France that led to the discovery of poet Albert-Paul Granier. Granier was an unknown name but he was soon republished in France and astonished French readers. Those who want revelations of Britain’s bitterly fought war can get “Falklands War Poetry” edited, with an introduction, by David Roberts. 

A soldier poet Yulia Drunina writes,

“Only once I saw hand-to-hand fighting.

Once real. Dreamed – a thousand times more.

Whoever says war isn’t frightening 

Knows nothing at all about war.” 

(Translated  from Russian by Walter May)

Only a stupid historian will write that there has been no war after the Second World War. 

American actor Gene Kelly said in the movie Inherit the Wind: "Darwin was wrong. The man's still an ape. When he first achieved the upright position, he took a look at the stars, and thought they were something to eat. When he couldn't reach them, he decided they were groceries belonging to a bigger creature. That's how Jehovah was born." 

(Jehovah is a form of the Hebrew name of God used in some translations of the Bible.)