Which poet was killed a week before the end of World War I?
World War I in literature the impression of World War I poetry. This selection tends to emphasise the horror of war, suffering, tragedy and anger against those that wage war. In the early weeks of the war, British poets responded with an outpouring of literary production. Rudyard Kipling's "For all we have and are" was syndicated extensively by newspapers in English speaking countries. Robert Bridges contributed a poem "Wake Up, England!" at the outbreak of war that he later wished suppressed., John Masefield, who later succeeded Bridges as poet laureate, wrote "August, 1914", a poem that was admired widely. Wilfred Owen was killed in battle;
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I published in 1922 were 325,000 dead (50,000 killed, 35,000 died of wounds, 240,000 died of disease), 400,000 wounded, and an unknown number of prisoners. The United States War Department used the same killed and wounded figures, and estimated that 250,000 Ottoman soldiers had gone missing or become prisoners before the end of the war, for a total of 975,000 casualties. American historian Edward J. Erickson, based on non-published individual World War I campaign histories in the Ottoman Archives, estimated Ottoman military casualties at 1,680,701: 771,844 dead/missing (175,220 killed in action, 68,378 died of wounds, 61,487 missing action, and 466,759 deaths