Now Online: Siegfried Sassoon's War Diaries

Thanks to BBC News for reporting on Cambridge University Library's digitization of Siegfried Sassoon's war diaries, which are now available online. A few details:

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".

The journals, which are made freely available online from Friday, offer a unique insight into life on the front line during World War One.

Writing in a "distinctive" but clear hand, Sassoon describes life in the trenches, including the moment he was shot by a sniper at the Battle of Arras, and his depiction of the first day of the Battle of the Somme as a "sunlit picture of hell'".

Head over to read the rest of the article at BBC News, and then get digging through the archive!

And speaking of archives, our good online editors have put together two samplers featuring the poetry of World War I. Browse the poets of WWI here, and then find poetry about experiences of WWI here.