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The diaries of war poet Siegfried Sassoon ... suicidal bravery in the face of danger. During one attack on the Hindenburg Line, Sassoon single-handedly captured an enemy trench, earning him ...
Today, the Cambridge University Digital Library Project made available dozens of Siegfried Sassoon's journals ... when they shivered and waited for the attack to begin or the brutal bombardment ...
Counter-Attack and Satirical Poems, and books including The Old Century, The Weald of Youth, Sherston's Progress and Siegfried's Journey. From the Sassoon library, the family is also selling the ...
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, Siegfried Loraine ... of his "Old Huntsman," Sassoon sprang into instant prominence, and his "Counter Attack" has led critics to ...
Siegfried Sassoon was a brave and extraordinary man ... he penned a ferocious attack on the conduct of the war, which he came to believe was cruelly prolonged, and atrociously wasteful of men's ...
It's on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading poets of World War I. Lt. Siegfried Sassoon was a model British officer decorated for his daring and valor in the trenches of ...
This compromise is shown to exact a brutal toll in somber bookending scenes set near the end of Sassoon’s life. (An acerbic Peter Capaldi plays the older, disillusioned Siegfried; Gemma Jones is ...
Lt. Siegfried Sassoon was a model British officer decorated for his daring and valor in the trenches of World War I, hailed by the soldiers he commanded as Mad Jack for his audacious nighttime raids.