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![Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry,](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/3626/slide-1.jpg)
Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the
1929 novel "Death of a Hero"
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![Aldington was born in Portsmouth and educated at Dover College and the University of London](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/3626/slide-2.jpg)
Aldington was born in Portsmouth and educated at Dover College and
the University of London
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His poetry was associated with the Imagist group, and his work
forms almost one third of the Imagists' inaugural anthology "Des Imagistes"
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He joined the army in 1916, was commissioned in the Royal
Sussexs in 1917 and was wounded on the Western Fron
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!["Death of a Hero", published in 1929 was his literary](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/3626/slide-5.jpg)
"Death of a Hero", published in 1929 was his literary response
to the war, commended by Lawrence Durrell as 'the best war novel of the epoch'.
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More importantly, he attacked Lawrence as a liar and a charlatan,
claims which have colored Lawrence's reputation since the publication of Aldington's book, but which were proven to be largely baseless once all the confidential government files concerning Lawrence's career had been released, proving the accuracy of Lawrence's own account.
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Aldington's reputation has never fully recovered from what later (and
with justification) came to be seen as a venomous personal attack upon Lawrence's reputation. Many believe that Aldington's suffering in the bloodbath of Europe during World War I caused him to resent Lawrence's reputation, gained in the more minor Middle Eastern arena.
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Aldington died in France on July 27, 1962, shortly after being
honoured and feted in Moscow on the occasion of his seventieth birthday