Siegfried Sassoon is mostly remembered for the devastating poetry he wrote during World War One as a result of leading his troops «over the top» to certain death. This episode in his life–when he was sent to military hospital suffering from shell-shock and his heroic return to the Front–is covered extensively in his own writing, and has overshadowed his later literary output. But his more mature poetry is resuscitated in this sensitive, exhaustively researched biography. As well as recounting...
