Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Paperback)

from DinadansFriend

Siegfried Sassoon went to the wars and tried to give an honest account of it. He was not in favour of the experience for normal humans and he gave a very influential account of his experience. A number of people thought it was a betrayal of the images they were fed by the establishment of the tim...

from DinadansFriend

Siegfried Sassoon went to the wars and tried to give an honest account of it. He was not in favour of the experience for normal humans and he gave a very influential account of his experience. A number of people thought it was a betrayal of the images they were fed by the establishment of the tim...

from YossarianXeno

Sassoon's novel tells the story of his alter ego, George Sherston, during World War 1. It sparsely charts his progress from being a patriotic, newly commissioned Second Lieutenant, through trench warfare - including the Battle of the Somme - to disillusionment, an officer overwhelmed with the fut...

from nmele

The second volume of Sassoon's fictionalized memoir covers a good bit of his military service during the First World War and concludes with his decision to write his famous soldier's statement, and the issuance of his statement and the initial reactions to it. Much easier and more engaging for me...

from TheWasp

This book follows directly from "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man" and follows George Sherston ( alias for Sassoon) as he heads to France to fight in the Great War. His battlefield experiences are compassionately documented and although his situation is slightly improved by the fact he is an officer ...