I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The … - Siegfried Sassoon

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I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer · December 1, 1930 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was a British poet and writer, best remembered for the poems he wrote as a soldier in World War I. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

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Birth Name: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

Alternative Names: Saul Kain • Pinchbeck Lyre • Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon

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To him, as to me, the War was inevitable and justifiable. Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.

Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time’s to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.

I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele.

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. - Siegfried Sassoon

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