“I believe that it may be possible to make the sufferings of the men…” — Siegfried Sassoon

“I believe that it may be possible to make the sufferings of the men less acute by exposing the callousness and insincerity of the politicians.”

Linking truthful speech with responsibility towards soldiers · Open letter, 1917

Truth
War

Siegfried Sassoon

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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