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TV review: Birdsong | The Last Explorers

The Guardian - Jan 22, 2012
That's how it goes in Birdsong (BBC1, Sunday); we yo-yo backwards and forwards between Claude Monet and Siegfried Sassoon. The war scenes are extraordinary – a meticulous portrayal of life in the trenches. Perhaps you don't get as great a sense of the ...

Why World War I Resonates

New York Times - Jan 21, 2012
The poets of the First World War — Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Isaac Rosenberg — are taught in almost all British schools. I can remember Wilfred Owen's terrifying poem “Dulce et Decorum Est,” about a mustard-gas attack, ...

Downton Abbey bookmania

The Periscope Post - Jan 13, 2012
Jason Boog, also on Mediabistro, gave a helpful list of poetry for Downton fans: Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas and Siegfried Sassoon. Flavorwire gave its suggestions for novels: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; ...

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Regeneration

by: Pat Barker
In 1917 Seigfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: The war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim.
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The Great War and Modern Memory

by: Paul Fussell
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world.
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World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others

Rich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In the Pink" by Sassoon, "In Flanders Fields" by Lieut. Col. McCrae, Thomas Hardy's "In Time of the Breaking of Nations," many more by Kipling, de la Mare, Bridges, others. Publisher's Note.
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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

by: Siegfried Sassoon
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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