“He was not eager to die,” Michael Korda writes of Siegfried Sassoon in his new ... fixated on Brooke’s physical beauty and his personal life. “Seldom in the long history of male-female ...

In 1917 one of them, the poet Siegfried Sassoon went public with his doubts ... But then they began to understand something of the stress of life in the trenches, the lack of sleep, the shattering ...