War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (2004)

by Siegfried Sassoon

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At the dawn of World War I, poet Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War and includes ""Counter-Attack,"" ""'They,"" ""The General,"" and ""Base Details.""… (more)

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I would like to know why a guy who seems not even sensitive about war does poems like this where you can see almost that he have cought a bullet while writting the poems.

Well, i didnt see that coming, Wilfried Owen in front of this is a underage tryharder. (

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This is the Dover collection "War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon", published in 2004, which is a selection of poems from Siegfried Sassoon's poems written between 1914 and 1920.

Please do not combine with the similarly-named 1919 publication as it is not the same work.

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At the dawn of World War I, poet Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War and includes ""Counter-Attack,"" ""'They,"" ""The General,"" and ""Base Details.""

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