The poem describes a gas attack in the trenches and pulsates with a sense ... set poems that offer different responses to the war. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine ...

In the trenches his men had known Lieutenant Sassoon ... Siegfried Sassoon’s protesting voice had been silenced, but his poetry remained clear and forceful. In 1918 he wrote, “You smug faced ...