The War Poems

The War Poems

By Siegfried Sassoon
Michael Caine
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English 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 satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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GenrePoetry
Length1 hr 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1THE WAR POEMS
26IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING-STATION
2PRELUDE: THE TROOPS
27DIED OF WOUNDS
3DREAMERS
28BASE DETAILS
4THE REDEEMER
29LAMENTATIONS
5TRENCH DUTY
30THE GENERAL
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6WIRERS
31HOW TO DIE
7BREAK OF DAY
32EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS
8A WORKING PARTY
33FIGHT TO A FINISH
9STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING
34ATROCITIES
10IN THE PINK
35THE FATHERS
11THE HERO
36"BLIGHTERS"
12BEFORE THE BATTLE
37GLORY OF WOMEN
13THE ROAD
38THEIR FRAILTY
14TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER
39DOES IT MATTER?
15THE DREAM
40SURVIVORS
16AT CARNOY
41JOY-BELLS
17BATALLION RELIEF
42ARMS AND THE MAN
18THE DUG-OUT
43WHEN I'M AMONG A BLAZE OF LIGHTS ...
19THE REAR-GUARD
44THE KISS
20I STOOD WITH THE DEAD
45THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER
21SUICIDE IN TRENCHES
46THE ONE-LEGGED MAN
22ATTACK
47RETURN OF THE HEROES
23COUNTER-ATTACK
48TO ANY DEAD OFFICER
24THE EFFECT
49SICK LEAVE
25REMORSE
50BANISHMENT

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