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Overview:
A biopic about soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best ed for his angry and comionate poems about the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirised generals, politicians, and churchmen for their incompetence and blind of the war.