21 July 2010 Last updated at 08:20 ET

Audio slideshow: Siegfried Sassoon

Hand-written treasures from the personal archive of one of WWI's great poets, Siegfried Sassoon, are on public display for the first time - at Cambridge University Library. With curator John Wells, see how Sassoon's writing in the trenches was affected by the horrors that he witnessed on the Western Front.

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'Dream Voices: Siegfried Sassoon, Memory and War' can be seen at Cambridge University Library until 23 December 2010. Admission free.

This slideshow contains graphic images.

Siegfried Sassoon papers courtesy of the Trustees of G T Sassoon Deceased. Archive photographs courtesy Getty Images. Music courtesy KPM Music.

Sassoon prose and poetry read by Zeb Soanes. Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 21 July 2010.

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Sassoon blog at Cambridge University Library

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