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.
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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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