Born on 8 September 1886, Siegfried Sassoon was an English writer and poet, WW I veteran. Read here and here.
He is best remembered
for his angry and compassionate poems of the First World War, which brought him
public and critical praise. Refusing the sentimentality and patriotism of other
war poets, he wrote of the horror and cruelty of trench warfare and scornfully
ridiculed generals, politicians, and churchmen for their incompetence and blind
support of the war.
