To commemorate the centenary of the Great War, the diaries of 3,987 British soldiers have been digitized and made available online. They contain first-hand accounts of trench warfare, gas attacks — oh ...

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Some of Siegfried Sassoon's diaries still bear marks of mud and candle wax from World War I. An officer in the British forces, Sassoon was also a poet—among the group whose work vividly captured the ...