A Soldier's Declaration (July 1917)
Context: I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
Siegfried Sassoon: Soldier
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“Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.”
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
Context: Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
"Suicide in the Trenches"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
“Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.”
"Dreamers"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)