War Poems Of Siegfried Sassoon

At the dawn of World War I, a young English poet exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) began the war with a sense of noble enterprise and concluded it with disillusionment. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War. Sassoon's greatest and most moving works--including "Counter-Attack," "'They'," "The General," and "Base Details"--trace his progress from idealism to a new dimension of tragic wisdom.Sassoon, Siegfried is the author of 'War Poems Of Siegfried Sassoon', published 2004 under ISBN 9780486437156 and ISBN 0486437159.