Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon [Siegfried Sassoon]

(1886–1967) an English ↑poet and author. He served as a soldier in ↑World War I and is best known for his poems about the horror of war. He was awarded the ↑Military Cross for his courage in battle but later rejected it because of his opposition to war. His collections of poetry include Counterattack (1918), and he wrote a series of books about his life, including The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928). If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I’d live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. Siegfried Sassoon Base Details