News at Eleven: They faced down the most difficult thing

for any of us to face down: our own mortality.

The thing that sets [Siegfried] Sassoon's work apart is that he was so connected to his soldiers. One of the previously unpublished poems in this collection provides an account of that connection, and of the wrongs Sassoon felt were being dished out to his men:

Can I forget the voice of one who cried

from The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon: The reluctant hero
also The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after £550,000 award

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