The Selected Poems of Clive Branson

Clive Branson (1907-1944) was born in Ahmednagar, India, the son of a major in the Indian army. Conscripted in 1941, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Armoured Corps. He was killed in action in Burma, aged just 36. 'The Selected Poems of Clive Branson' brings together the best of his surviving poetry. Passionate and committed, it's a first-hand account of the most violent years of the twentieth-century - Britain in the slump, Spain during the civil-war, fascist prisons, the London Blitz, the cultural shock of India and its poverty, the war against Japan - recorded with a painterly eye and a communist faith in the power of the people.