Siefried Sassoon And Counter-Attack Couter-Attack is a poem of war, and it is in a soldiers viewpoint. It starts out with his army keeping the enemy away early in the morning. Everyone was unshaven and thirsty and blind from smoke but still everything seemed all right. They had certain guns set up in different places to keep them away. It shows alot of soldiers dead and just laying in the mud and then "the rain". Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Paddock Wood in Kent. After Marlborough College he went to Clare College, Cambridge but left without a degree. For the next eight years lived the life of a country gentleman.