The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Esprios Classics)

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet writer and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who in Sassoon's view were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his Soldier's Declaration of 1917 culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography collectively known as the Sherston trilogy.