Same here. Dropped history as soon as I could (although we did 'do' the war poets for English Lit.)

This is great: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/owen although you need to search the whole collection sometimes to find gems like Who is the God of Canongate. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5189?REC=2 I suspect the autor of your book wouldn't have liked him writing about rent boys.