Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 – 1967)
TO MY BROTHERGIVE me your hand, my brother, search my face; Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame; For we have made an end of all things base. We are returning by the road we came. Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead, And I am in the field where men must fight. But in the gloom I see your laurell’d head And through your victory I shall win the light.
UK Buyers | Purchase the BookSiegfried Sassoon by Max Egremont (Author) SIEGFRIED SASSOON DENIED that he was 'a typical Jew' and disliked to be thought rich, but at the end of the nineteenth century, when he was born, the name of Sassoon meant great riches: a 'gilded' Jewish family linked to the raffish Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and to an exotic, slightly mysterious past... | US Buyers | | |
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