The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon, credited to Siegfried Sassoon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon. Read in English by volunteer readers. Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. He served in World War I on the Western Front and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire. However, he later became a convicted pacifist, threw his Military Cross into the Mersey river, and continued to write and publish poems and political statements against the war. His poems capture the despair he felt towards the war overall, and he paints vivid word pictures that make the reader "pray you'll never know, the hell where youth and laughter go". (Summary by Elizabby) Note: This work is in the public domain in the USA. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
• Author credits: Siegfried Sassoon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 1:38:46

Catalogue topics

• war
• poems

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 00 - Prelude: The Troops — 1:43
2. 01 - Dreamers — 1:04
3. 02 - The Redeemer — 2:49
4. 03 - Trench Duty — 1:19
5. 04 - Wirers — 1:30
6. 05 - Break Of Day — 3:59
7. 06 - A Working Party — 3:28
8. 07 - Stand-To: Good Friday Morning — 1:07
9. 08 - 'In The Pink' — 1:32
10. 09 - The Hero — 1:30
11. 10 - Before The Battle — 1:06
12. 11 - The Road — 1:36
13. 12 - Two Hundred Years After — 1:16
14. 13 - The Dream — 2:37
15. 14 - At Carnoy — 1:02
16. 15 - Battalion Relief — 2:04
17. 16 - The Dug-Out — 0:55
18. 17 - The Rear-Guard — 2:11
19. 18 - I Stood With The Dead — 1:20
20. 19 - Suicide In Trenches — 1:05
21. 20 - Attack — 1:24
22. 21 - Counter-Attack — 2:53
23. 22 - The Effect — 1:49
24. 23 - Remorse — 1:38

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.