Siegfried Sassoon, English soldier and writer (born 1886)

Siegfried Sassoon

English war poet and writer (1886–1967)

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those…