Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston (The George Sherston Trilogy)
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The second volume in Siegfried Sassoonâ‚¬s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell

A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war.

The second volume of Siegfried Sassoon's semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy picks up shortly after Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man: in 1916, with the young Sherston deep in the trenches of WWI. For his decorated bravery, and also his harmful recklessness, he is soon sent to the Fourth Army School for officer training, then dispatched to Morlancourt, a raid, and on through the Somme. 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 Soldierâ‚¬s Declaration", which was eventually read in the British House of Commons). 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. Sassoon's stunning portrayal of a mind coming to terms with the brutal truths he has encountered in warâ‚¬"as well as his unsentimental, though often poetic, portrayal of class-defined life in England at wartimeâ‚¬"is amongst the greatest books ever written about World War I, or war itself.

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Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 014310716X
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2013-05-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143107163

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	014310716X
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2013-05-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780143107163

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston (The George Sherston Trilogy)

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