The diaries of war poet Siegfried Sassoon, stained with mud from the ... And in one tiny black notebook he wrote his 'Soldier's Declaration', a damning criticism of the mindless slaughter of ...

Some of Siegfried Sassoon's diaries still bear marks of ... "From his 'Soldier's Declaration' to his eyewitness accounts of the first day of battle on the Somme, the Sassoon archive is a ...

Just days before the one-hundredth anniversary of Britain's declaration of war on Germany ... Library Project made available dozens of Siegfried Sassoon's journals, encompassing thousands of ...

Two unpublished poems by Siegfried Sassoon will be given a public reading ... Sassoon wrote a letter called "Finished With the War: A Soldier's Declaration". In it he said: "I am making this ...

With the gay English poet Siegfried Sassoon as the subject of "Benediction," his ninth ... he wrote his "Soldier's Declaration of 1917" to his commanding officer, highlighting the suffering of British ...

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 ...

WW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon wrote to the early socialist ... he wrote the famous Soldier's Declaration. Sassoon sent a copy of this to Carpenter, who was a pacifist and corresponded with many ...