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The Murder of Lidice-by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Background information about the poem taken from the forward about the poem published in 1942 During World War II -The Writers' War Board was formed and thousands of American Writers offered their talents to the American Government so that they could inform Americans about the war. One published work by Edna St. Vincent Millay was a narrative poem that described the true story about a town in Czechoslovakia called Lidice that was destroyed by the Nazi's. Please check out the links below to view a memorial to the town and the familes that died.

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