author
Siegfried Sassoon
1886–1967
A fierce, unforgettable voice of the First World War, this English poet wrote with unusual honesty about trench warfare and the damage it left behind. His work combines anger, compassion, and sharp wit in a way that still feels immediate.
4 Audiobooks
Picture-Show
by Siegfried Sassoon
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
by Siegfried Sassoon
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
by Siegfried Sassoon
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
by Siegfried Sassoon
About the author
Born in Kent in 1886, Siegfried Sassoon became one of the best-known poets of the First World War. He served on the Western Front, was decorated for bravery, and turned his war experience into poems that rejected patriotic gloss and faced the brutality of combat directly.
Alongside his poetry, he wrote memoirs and novels that helped shape how later generations imagined both the war and the England that existed around it. His writing moves between bitterness, sadness, tenderness, and dry humor, which gives it a lasting human force.
Sassoon continued writing for decades after the war and died in 1967. He is still widely read not only as a war poet, but as a writer who captured both public conflict and private feeling with striking clarity.