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| Name Siegfried Sassoon |
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| Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work.Sassoon was born at Weirleigh in Matfield, Kent, to a Jewish... |
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