"Overlord" is the first major poetic epic in the English language
since Milton's "Paradise Lost". Written in blank verse, with a
panoramic visionary sweep that embraces higher and lower worlds
within a universalist scheme, it is a contemporary epic poem in the
tradition of Homer's "Iliad" and Virgil's "Aeneid". Drawing, as
they do, on a single defining event for civilisation, it focuses on
World War II and the American General Eisenhower's pursuit of
Hitler and the fall of Berlin (our Troy); the battles and the
suffering, and the hidden conflicts between Stalin, Roosevelt and
Churchill, Eisenhower and Montgomery, and Hitler and his generals.
All are handled with a Homeric mastery that moves easily between
formal diplomacy and bitter antagonism. Eisenhower's visions of
Hell and Heaven evoke Dante's "Divine Comedy". In dealing with
these powerful forces, still operating in our own time, "Overlord"
makes sense of the 20th century and gives a new understanding of
the present - in particular of the alternative New World Orders
that face us.
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