Now, a current soldier is putting deep thoughts about that “internal war” in a book of poems he wrote ... Hoping the book helps non-military and families understand too, Sgt.

SIMON:When you say war poetry these days, people tend to presume that you're talking about the poets of the First World War. They're the last generation of trained writers, and trained soldiers.

In the trenches his men had known Lieutenant Sassoon as Mad Jack for his astonishing fearlessness and he’d won a Military ... the War and died in 1967. Jeremy Paxman explores the poetry of ...