Sassoon's Public Statement Of Defiance Comments

Courageous utterances set aside for deep reflective thought

And a year later he returned to the trenches after being shut up in a hospital for shell-shocked officers by the army elite not shot or court marshalled because he was a decorated war hero. so what does that say of a man to return to his men in the living hades of the trenches. He was also great influence on another war poet at the time, Wilfred Owen.

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