The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Sassoon, Siegfried

ISBN 10: 1603862846 / ISBN 13: 9781603862844

Published by Merchant Books, 2010

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Synopsis:

An unabridged edition, with sixty-four poems to include, but not limited to: Prelude: The Troops - Dreamers - The Redeemer - Trench Duty - Wirers - Break of Day - A Working Party - Stand-To: Good Friday Morning - "In The Pink" - The Hero - Before The Battle - The Road - Two Hundred Years After - The Dream - At Carnoy - Battalion Relief - The Dug-Out - The Rear-Guard - I Stood With the Dead - Suicide in Trenches - Attack - Counter-Attack - The Effect - Remorse - In An Underground Dressing-Station - Died Of Wounds - "They" - Base Details - Lamentations - The General - How to Die - Editorial Impressions - Fight to a Finish - Atrocities - The Fathers - "Blighters" - Glory of Women - Their Frailty - Does It Matter? - Survivors - Joy-Bells - Arms and the Man - When I'm Among a Blaze of Lights - The Kiss - The Tombstone-Maker - The One-Legged Man - Return of the Heroes - Everyone Sang

About the Author: The celebrated British poet, editor, critic, novelist, and diarist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) enlisted for military service on the first day of World War I; his friends in the service included Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon's war poems were originally published in "The Old Huntsman" (1917) and "Counter-Attack" (1918). After the war, he went on to write several other books of poetry and criticism, as well as six volumes of prose autobiography.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Merchant Books
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good