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    Counter-Attack and Other Poems
    Counter-Attack and Other Poems
    Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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    Counter-Attack and Other Poems

    By Siegfried Sassoon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1918
    Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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    Siegfried Sassoon

    Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as ‘shell-shocked’ to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades.

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      The war poems of Siegfried Sassoon. Along with those of Wilfred Owen, perhaps the most significant verse to come out of the experience of the trenches of World War I.

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