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Siegfried Sassoon's WWI diaries published online [View all]
BBC News
31 July 2014
Siegfried Sassoon's war diaries published online
The diaries of war poet Siegfried Sassoon are being published online for the first time.
The archive of 23 journals and two notebooks of poetry has been digitised by the Cambridge University Library, which bought the collection in 2009.
Until now only Sassoon's official biographer - Max Egremont - has had access to the complete 4,100-page archive due to its fragile state.
Librarian Anne Jarvis said the war diaries were of "towering importance"....
Much MORE at http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28581726
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