''Oasis'' was a 1943 literary anthology published in

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during

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. It was edited by Denis Saunders, David Burk, and Victor Selwyn, all then serving in the armed forces. The introduction was written by General

Henry Maitland Wilson Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, (5 September 1881 – 31 December 1964), also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during the ...

, who was at this time Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East. The '' Palestine Post'' reviewed the collection: "The poems were written by men under the stress of war in the desert, in the air and on the sea, under the impact of countries and people strangely new to them."

Notes

# In January 1944 Wilson was made Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean, and became a Field Marshal at the end of 1944. #{{note, post ''The Palestine Post'', an English language newspaper founded in 1932, changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post'' in 1950.

References

Denis Saunders' obituary
1943 anthologies Poetry anthologies War poetry World War II poems