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Read # Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Penguin Classics) PDF by * Siegfried Sassoon eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Penguin Classics) you will appreciate Sassoon's beautiful prose and lyrical longing for what was TFoss As long as you understand this text is not going to be filled with the gory ravages of war, and rather one man's journey to it, away from it, and back again, you will appreciate Sassoon's beautiful prose and lyrical longing for what was, in the midst of what is. Sassoon, as many have said, glorifies pastoral England, and mourns its loss. If you've not read Pat Barker's _Regeneration_ trilogy, here is its genesis
| Title | : | Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Penguin Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 014310716X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
"A book of deep beauty and abiding significance. A book which will, I hope and believe, be read by millions."—Harold Nicholson"Those who in future really want to understand the atmosphere of the years 1916 and 1917, and the conditions of life, will turn back to this book."—Daily Telegraph“a document of intense and sensitive humanity.”—The New Statesman
you will appreciate Sassoon's beautiful prose and lyrical longing for what was TFoss As long as you understand this text is not going to be filled with the gory ravages of war, and rather one man's journey to it, away from it, and back again, you will appreciate Sassoon's beautiful prose and lyrical longing for what was, in the midst of what is. Sassoon, as many have said, glorifies pastoral England, and mourns its loss. If you've not read Pat Barker's _Regeneration_ trilogy, here is its genesis As a former officer, I applaud th. "Teaser" according to Gary Lane. The second book of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy about the Great War definitely needs to be read with the other two volumes. It starts in the middle of the story arc with the protagonist, George Sherston, returning to the front in 1915 and ends abruptly when he is surreptitiously bungled off by officer friends to a mental hospital in Scotland for his pubic anti-war sentiments. After reading "Memoirs" it is obvious to me how Sassoon sur. "a genuine classic" according to david o vaagen. This is easily the most quoted book about an individual soldier in WW1. I have read many books about the Great War and several personal memoirs but this goes past war literature into great literature.
Through the help of close friend David Cromlech (based on Sassoon's friend Robert Graves) a medical board decides not to prosecute, but instead deem him to be mentally ill, suffering from shell-shock, and sends him to a hospital for treatment. After being wounded by a bullet through the lung, he returns home to convalesce, where his questioning of the war and the British Military establishment leads him to write a public anti-war letter (verbatim the letter Sassoon wrote in 1917, entitled "Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration", which was eventually read in the British House of Commons). For his decorated bravery, and also his harmful recklessne
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was a poet and novelist whose novels include the James Tait Black Award–winning Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. He was also the editor of the collection Sassoon’s Long Journey.. He is recognized as one of the great poets of World War I and one of the war’s most influential opponents.Paul Fussell
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