The unsentimental voice of experience characterises the poems of the Second World War. Dennis McHarrie bitterly records the death of a fellow airman. Spike Milligan was driven to write his first poem by the sound of the London Scottish burying their dead. General Sir John Hackett introduces dramatised readings of the work of airmen, soldier, sailor and women poets who give a unique insight on war, and commends the work of the Salamander Oasis Trust who have published them.