I don't suppose anybody has an image or PDF of Seigfried Sassoon's poem, "A Night Attack"? It's proving very hard to track down.
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I was brought to mind of it because of Owen Jones's risible nothing more beautiful than Nazi's fleeing in terror nonsense.
I'm aware, obviously, S. is WW1, but "A Night Attack" is a terrific example of ability to empathize with enemy even amidst horror of war.
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Longer extract included here: https://news.yale.edu/2014/08/11/conversation-david-bromwich-great-poetry-world-war-i … Think this might be the bit you were thinking of.
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Many thanks, Paula! :)
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There's also a well known passage in All Quiet on the Western Front
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There's an extract from it here: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/562738915915133374/ … Strange it's so hard to find the whole thing.
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