The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Patches helped various wartime charities and

helped various wartime charities and sold old bottles to raise funds for recreational huts and ambulances for the front

and dispelled Britain’s island sense of security

by Charlie Connelly

that struggled to capitalize on its victories

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Patches helped various wartime charities andDescription By Siegfried Sassoon Paperback 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