Portable Poetry Siegfried sassoon - the war poems: 'man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of germans'', paperback/siegfried sassoon

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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886.

Sassoon was educated at the New Beacon School, Sevenoaks, Kent then Marlborough College, Wiltshire and finally at Clare College, Cambridge, where from 1905 to 1907 he read history.

He went down from Cambridge without a degree and spent the next few years indulging himself hunting, playing cricket and writing verse.

However, motivated by patriotism, Sassoon joined the Sussex Yeomanry of the British Army as the threat of war escala.