Siegfried Sassoon: Selections on war

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

British writers on peace and war

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Siegfried Sassoon: Aftermath

Siegfried Sassoon: Arms and the Man

Siegfried Sassoon: At the Cenotaph

Siegfried Sassoon: Atrocities

Siegfried Sassoon: “The bullet and the bayonet are brother and sister”

Siegfried Sassoon: Creatures whose faces knew nothing of War’s demented language

Siegfried Sassoon: Disappointed that discovery of dead, wounded enemy didn’t cause revival of humane emotion

Siegfried Sassoon: Enemies

Siegfried Sassoon: The foul beast of war that bludgeons life

Siegfried Sassoon: Gloom and disaster of the thing called Armageddon

Siegfried Sassoon: In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth

Siegfried Sassoon: Murdering the livid hours that grope for peace

Siegfried Sassoon: Newspapers keep horrors of war out of articles, slain assumed to be gloriously happy

Siegfried Sassoon: No doubt he loathed the war and longed for peace

Siegfried Sassoon: Our deeds with lies were lauded, our bones with wrongs rewarded

Siegfried Sassoon: Repression of War Experience

Siegfried Sassoon: Their dreams that drip with murder, of glorious war that shatter’d all their pride

Siegfried Sassoon: To Any Dead Officer

Siegfried Sassoon: The Tombstone-Maker

Siegfried Sassoon: The unheroic dead who fed the guns, those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones

Siegfried Sassoon: War, remorse and reconciliation

Siegfried Sassoon: We left our holes and looked above the wreckage of the earth

Edmund Gosse: War and the brutalities of the real thing