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The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero
  
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The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero (Hardcover)
by May Cannan (Author), Bevil Quiller-Couch (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Cavalier Paperbacks (1 Jul 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1899470182
  • ISBN-13: 978-1899470181
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,188,084 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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The Tears of War is the passionate and true love story of a First World War poet, May Cannan and an artillery officer, Bevil Quiller-Couch. It tells their story through May's poems, extracts from her autobiography, and through Bevil's letters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Emotional of course - but also unexpectedly fine poetry, 4 Sep 2006
This review is from: The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero (Paperback)
The story of a young VAD nurse and poet in WWI and the wartime career and eventual loss of her fiance was certain to be moving. It has been most sensitively collated by her great niece.

What I did not expect was to discover almost unknown poetry (some never before published) of such a very high standard. May Wedderburn Cannan's work deserves to be much better known. Not least of all is the wonderful poem written a few days before her death in 1976.

It is therefore particularly poignant that the man she eventually married was uncomfortable with her writing, and that she wrote so little between 1933 and his death in 1967. Especially since it was through her poems that he had fallen in love with her...

However, what is here is of consistently high quality, and the first-hand accounts of the period are very revealing.

Highly recommended.
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