A01=Siegfried Sassoon
Author_Siegfried Sassoon
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- ISBN 9780571099139
- Weight: 519g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 1980
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes Sherston's Progress and both Memoirs,
Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as 'shell-shocked' to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades. Apart from the War Poems of 1919, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. But it is as a novelist and autobiographer that he is perhaps better known. Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936), was outstandingly successful. He published several more volumes of autobiography, including Siegfried's Journey (1945), before his death in 1967.
