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He is recognized as one of the great poets of World War I and one of the war’s most influential opponents.Paul Fussell (1925–2012) was a writer, editor, and historian whose experiences in World War II led to his writing the award-winning classic The Great War and Modern Memory. Siegfried Sassoon (188

He was also the editor of the collection Sassoon’s Long Journey.. About the AuthorSiegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was a poet and novelist whose novels include the James Tait Black Award–winning Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. He is recognized as one of the great poets of World War I and one of the war’s most influential opponents.Paul Fussell (1925–2012) was a writer, editor, and historian whose experiences in World War II led to his writing the award-winning classic The Great War and Modern Memory

W. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.. He finally ends up at the Western Front in France, where he is shot in the head while on a reconnaissance mission and invalided back home. As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress—whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental—literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great War.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Rivers, who allows Sherston to sort through his attitudes toward the fighting (events that have also been semi-fictionalized by Pat Barker for her bestselling and critically acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy). He is soon dispa

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 the way Sassoon never really draws attention to his o. "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 survived trench slaughter: he spent a considerable tim. a genuine classic 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.

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