“I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the…” — Siegfried Sassoon

“I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.”

A direct condemnation of political responsibility for continued suffering · Open letter / statement, 1917

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About Siegfried Sassoon

8 September 1886–1 September 1967

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, a house near the village of Matfield in Kent, and died on 1 September 1967 at Heytesbury House in Wiltshire, a week before his eighty-first birthday. He remains one of the defining literary witnesses of the First World War: a poet whose plain speech…

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