Base Details
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Base Details
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"Base Details" is a war poem by the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon that takes place in the First World War. Sassoon wrote it in his diary entry for 4 March 1917. The poem is written about how the staff officers of the British Army deploy soldiers to the war front to be killed, while they stay at the Base "guzzling and gulping in the best hotel" and sending "glum heroes up the line to death". Like Sassoon's many other poems, "Base Details" is bitterly sarcastic and derisive of the comfortable
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