World War I’s famous soldier poets spring to life in ‘Muse of Fire’ Michael Korda’s group biography of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and others is richly detailed and elegantly written ...

If WW1 had been drastically shortened because (to quote the headline over Baker’s piece) “media onslaught makes winning wars harder” there might have been no Treaty of Versailles and no WW2.

Sassoon was already known for his poetry at this time and his most famous works included Suicide In The Trenches, On Passing The New Menin Gate and The Poet As Hero.

The New Beacon School tragically lost 37 Old Beaconians in WW1. Siegfried Sassoon was a former pupil of the school, as was Hamo, his brother who died in Gallipoli in November 1915. On Friday 9 ...

Owen introduces himself hesitantly to Sassoon when the latter arrives at Craiglockhart in 1917, having been diagnosed as suffering from ‘war neurosis’ as a result of his protest against the war.

The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...

Scott Simon talks with director Terence Davies about the new film "Benediction." It's on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading poets of World War I.

Siegfried’s father, Alfred, distanced himself not only from the family trade but also from their faith and heritage, marrying a gentile and seemingly passing on no Jewish customs to his children.