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Hace 4 días · Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an eminent English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.
Hace 2 días · Born on September 8, 1886, Sassoon was a soldier who was decorated for his bravery on the Western Front in World War I. Once, he single-handedly captured a German trench on the Hindenburg Line and scattered the German soldiers. He was awarded the Military Cross on July 27, 1916.
Hace 4 días · How To Die. Dark clouds are smouldering into red. While down the craters morning burns. The dying soldier shifts his head. To watch the glory that returns: He lifts his fingers toward the skies. Where holy brightness breaks in flame; Radiance reflected in his eyes, And on his lips a whispered name.
Hace 3 días · Television films and series. The diplomatic negotiations leading to the First World War. A team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together in a tented field hospital to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the Great War.
Hace 4 días · 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, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. “He's a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack. As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
Hace 3 días · Gallantry Awards – Courage and Sacrifice. Our medal collection is not just a collection of medals. ‘These intolerably nameless names’, as Siegfried Sassoon referred to them, should never be forgotten or ignored, and yet they cascade so relentlessly that they are often difficult to grapple with; within a very short space of time ...
Hace 5 días · With yellow candles burning straight, And glowing pictures in the gloom, And kindly books that hold me late. Of things like these I choose to think. When I can never be alone: Then someone says 'Another drink ?' And turns my living heart to stone. Siegfried Sassoon. Rate: (1)
