Written from the front line and published in 1918, these poems set the mud, the dead and the dug-outs against the cheerful talk of those at home. Here are the title poem, The Rear-Guard, Wirers, Attack, Dreamers, Does it Matter? and Fight to a Finish, introduced by a sketch of Sassoon the man.
Among the defining poetry of the First World War, sharp, angry and still painfully direct. Download the free EPUB.