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Into Battle (poem)

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"Into Battle" is a 1915 war poem by a British First World War subaltern, Julian Grenfell.[1] The poem was published posthumously in The Times after Grenfell fell in 1915. At the time it was as popular as Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier". The poem is pro-war in nature.

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Tim (6 February 2010). "Julian Grenfell: 'Into Battle'".