Keith Douglas
Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during World War II and his wry memoir of the Western Desert Campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
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