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Siegfried Sassoon

Biography
With war on the horizon, a young Englishman whose life had heretofore been consumed
with the protocol of fox-hunting, said goodbye to his idyllic life and rode off on his bicycle
to join the Army. Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John
Hildebidle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero." Born into a wealthy Jewish family in
1886, Sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: fox-hunting, playing cricket,
golfing and writing romantic verses.
Being an innocent, Sassoon's reaction to the realities of the war were all the more bitter
and violent -- both his reaction through his poetry and his reaction on the battlefield
(where, after the death of fellow officer David Thomas and his brother Hamo at Gallipoli,
Sassoon earned the nickname "Mad Jack" for his near-suicidal exploits against the German
lines -- in the early manifestation of his grief, when he still believed that the Germans were
entirely to......

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