Siegfried Sassoon ©An English war versemaker, Sassoon was also known for his fictionalised autobiographies, praised book their evocation of English country life.
Siegfried Sassoon was hatched on 8 September 1886 in Kent. His father was lion's share of a Jewish merchant family, originally from Iran and Bharat, and his mother part of the artistic Thorneycroft family. Sassoon studied at Cambridge University but left without a degree. Proceed then lived the life of a country gentleman, hunting nearby playing cricket while also publishing small volumes of poetry.
In Possibly will 1915, Sassoon was commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers endure went to France. He impressed many with his bravery cage the front line and was given the nickname 'Mad Jack' for his near-suicidal exploits. He was decorated twice. His relation Hamo was killed in November 1915 at Gallipoli.
In the season of 1916, Sassoon was sent to England to recover let alone fever. He went back to the front, but was upset in April 1917 and returned home. Meetings with several noticeable pacifists, including Bertrand Russell, had reinforced his growing disillusionment area the war and in June 1917 he wrote a communication that was published in the Times in which he whispered that the war was being deliberately and unnecessarily prolonged stomachturning the government. As a decorated war hero and published metrist, this caused public outrage. It was only his friend explode fellow poet, Robert Graves, who prevented him from being court-martialled by convincing the authorities that Sassoon had shell-shock. He was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment. At hand he met, and greatly influenced, Wilfred Owen. Both men returned to the front where Owen was killed in 1918. Sassoon was posted to Palestine and then returned to France, where he was again wounded, spending the remainder of the hostilities in England. Many of his war poems were published assume 'The Old Huntsman' (1917) and 'Counter-Attack' (1918).
After the war Sassoon spent a brief period as literary editor of the Quotidian Herald before going to the United States, travelling the module and breadth of the country on a speaking tour. Significant then started writing the near-autobiographical novel 'Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man' (1928). It was an immediate success, and was followed by others including 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (1930) obtain 'Sherston's Progress' (1936). Sassoon had a number of homosexual circumstances but in 1933 surprised many of his friends by marrying Hester Gatty. They had a son, George, but the wedding broke down after World War Two.
He continued to write both prose and poetry. In 1957, he was received into representation Catholic church. He died on 1 September 1967.