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Saturday, 2 August 2014

Siegfried Sassoon's war diaries published online- IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN AN D FORGOTTEN , INNOCENT WHO LOSE THIER LIFES IN WW1

Sketch illustrating Sassoon’s account of his solo attack on a German trench
The diaries of war poet Siegfried Sassoon are being published online for the first time.
The archive of 23 journals and two notebooks of poetry has been digitised by the Cambridge University Library, which bought the collection in 2009.
Until now only Sassoon's official biographer - Max Egremont - has had access to the complete 4,100-page archive due to its fragile state.
Librarian Anne Jarvis said the war diaries were of "towering importance".
The journals, which are made freely available online from Friday, offer a unique insight into life on the front line during World War One.
Writing in a "distinctive" but clear hand, Sassoon describes life in the trenches, including the moment he was shot by a sniper at the Battle of Arras, and his depiction of the first day of the Battle of the Somme as a Drawing of a soldier, entitled ‘The Soul of an Officer’ - by Siegfried SassoonREAD MORE"sunlit picture of hell'"
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