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Counter-Attack

By: Siegfried Sassoon
Narrated by: Phillip J. Mather
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The narrator pledges to donate 50% of his proceeds to The Royal British Legion Poppy Day Appeal - please support. Siegfried Sassoon is one of the best-known of the plethora of First World War poets. His poem, "Counter-Attack", was published in 1918 in Counter-Attack and Other Poems and describes the horror of life in the trenches of the Western Front.

Public Domain (P)2014 Phillip J. Mather Poetry
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great poem but the deep bass voice, while fan in some other work would be fine is here ruinously unsuitable. it just kills the poem outright, what a shame.

the deep bass voice is ruinously unsuitable.

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