Sassoon fund gains £550,000 boost
The National Heritage Memorial Fund's award to Cambridge University puts it closer to raising the £1.25m needed to permanently secure the collection. It includes a manuscript of Sassoon's statement refusing to return to duty after being wounded. The poet, whose work captured the futility of war,...
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- News Source: The Guardian | 24 days agoHearing the soldier's voice As discussion rages on Afghanistan, it seems appropriate to reflect on Siegfried Sassoon's views on the futility of war Open thread Siegfried Sassoon. Photograph: George C Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images As...
- News Source: BBC | 25 days agoThe National Heritage Memorial Fund's award to Cambridge University puts it closer to raising the £1.25m needed to permanently secure the collection. It includes a manuscript of Sassoon's statement refusing to return to duty after being wounded. The...
- News Source: The Guardian | 25 days agoThe National Heritage Memorial Fund will say it is awarding £550,000 to Cambridge University's campaign to buy the war poet's literary archive. That means the university is just £110,000 short of the £1.25m needed to secure it from the Sassoon...
- News Source: The Guardian | 25 days agoI once came across a letter written by a military officer to a soldier's mother. "We regret to inform you," it said, "that your son was shot at dawn for cowardice." I later discovered that more than 300 British soldiers were executed for cowardice or...
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- Blog Source: books.1441.orgAs far as I know, Siegfried Sassoon didn't write about these soldiers. But what he did do, as I did when I went to the graves at Ypres, was get angry about the futility of the war. In July 1917, Sassoon – poet, diarist, satirist, ...
- Blog Source: pencils4life.blogspot.comThe General by Siegfried Sassoon. The General. 'Good-morning; good-morning!' the General said. When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, ...
- Blog Source: afoxhuntingman.livejournal.comAnd so I now present to you my absolute favourite Sassoon poem of all time: Aftermath (1919) Have you forgotten yet?... For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of ...
- Blog Source: toblerone091.blogspot.comAttack by Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967). Depicts the scene of an attack during a battle. It closely describes the actions of the soldiers and tank. The fear and hope of the soldiers are depicted during the attack. Language: ...
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