In 1917 one of them, the poet Siegfried Sassoon went public with his doubts about the war. In the trenches his men had known Lieutenant Sassoon as Mad Jack for his astonishing fearlessness and he ...
However, poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were only two of 80,000 British troops officially suffering from this nebulous illness, which undoubtedly affected many, many more. Though the ...
Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important WW1 poets.