The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Patches by Charlie Connelly

by Charlie Connelly

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

that struggled to capitalize on its victories

The advent of poison gas in World War I shocked Britons at all levels of society

like the French Revolution before it

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Patches by Charlie ConnellyDescription 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