A new book looks at the life of soldier and Great War poet Siegfried Sassoon, including his years at Heytesbury House, near Warminster.

Siegfried Sassoon: Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend, by English lecturer Jean Moorcroft Wilson, encompasses the poet’s life and complete works.

It gives details of his time at Heytesbury House, the Georgian mansion in 220 acres of park and woodland he bought for £20,000 in 1933, after marrying Hester Gatty.

Mrs Wilson writes in the book: “Heytesbury appears regularly in Sassoon’s poetry from 1934 onwards, often as setting, sometimes as the subject itself.”

It was where his only son, George, was born in 1936 and where he wrote his three autobiographical books.

Sassoon lived there until his death in 1967.

The house was taken over by his son, then sold in 1986.