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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Patches like the French Revolution beforeDescription 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