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The War Poems

by: Siegfried Sassoon

March 14, 1983
I did not care for the items we had to read at school that is until I came across Siegfried Sassoon. He explains clearly with passion and experance what WAR truely is. In an age of mass media and what appears to be new wars every other day, he so the true cost of war not in pound or dollors.
To read his work even one at two of his poems will show you the horrors of war better than any Hollywood movie.
Reading his work is like talking to the man, and he has given you excess to every private though in him . He is a true great.

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Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (Faber paperbacks)

by: Siegfried Sassoon

January 31, 1975
This book is a moving and eloquent description of the rural life led by a young "gentleman" immediately prior to the first world war. The difference between modern life and his experiences is breath-taking. Also his creeping self-doubt gives the account a certain honesty and I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Particularly good if you have followed, or want to find out about, hunting. Highly reccommended.

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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Faber Paper-Covered Editions)

by: Siegfried Sassoon

May 27, 1980
Don't expect a horrific account of life in the trenches. It made me feel that being an officer in WW1 was merely an uncomfortable experience, but nothing more. His pre-war life made for a good read.
I'd recommend it but not as an anti-war story.

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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

by: Siegfried Sassoon

February 13, 1974
Although the language has, perhaps, become a little dated, this is a wonderfully humane and earnest book. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's war and to be read alongside Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That. Highly recommended from a social and literary viewpoint, you'll be able to spot characters such as Graves and Bertrand Russsell who are thinly veiled behind the fiction. This volume takes us to the point at which Sassoon (or Sherston as he is here) was admitted to Craiglockhart Hospital where, effectively, his war ended. Includes wonderful accounts of a serene English life before the aftermath and scale of the Great War's tragedy was fully revealed.

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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

by: Siegfried Sassoon

June 07, 2001
Although the language has, perhaps, become a little dated, this is a wonderfully humane and earnest book. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's war and to be read alongside Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That. Highly recommended from a social and literary viewpoint, you'll be able to spot characters such as Graves and Bertrand Russsell who are thinly veiled behind the fiction. This volume takes us to the point at which Sassoon (or Sherston as he is here) was admitted to Craiglockhart Hospital where, effectively, his war ended. Includes wonderful accounts of a serene English life before the aftermath and scale of the Great War's tragedy was fully revealed.

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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Dodo Press)

by: Siegfried Sassoon

July 13, 2007
I did not care for the items we had to read at school that is until I came across Siegfried Sassoon. He explains clearly with passion and experance what WAR truely is. In an age of mass media and what appears to be new wars every other day, he so the true cost of war not in pound or dollors.
To read his work even one at two of his poems will show you the horrors of war better than any Hollywood movie.
Reading his work is like talking to the man, and he has given you excess to every private though in him . He is a true great.

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Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (FF Classics)

by: Siegfried Sassoon

April 05, 1999
This book is a moving and eloquent description of the rural life led by a young "gentleman" immediately prior to the first world war. The difference between modern life and his experiences is breath-taking. Also his creeping self-doubt gives the account a certain honesty and I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Particularly good if you have followed, or want to find out about, hunting. Highly reccommended.

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The War Poems (Faber Pocket Poetry)

by: Siegfried Sassoon

October 04, 1999
I did not care for the items we had to read at school that is until I came across Siegfried Sassoon. He explains clearly with passion and experance what WAR truely is. In an age of mass media and what appears to be new wars every other day, he so the true cost of war not in pound or dollors.
To read his work even one at two of his poems will show you the horrors of war better than any Hollywood movie.
Reading his work is like talking to the man, and he has given you excess to every private though in him . He is a true great.

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Sherston's Progress

by: Siegfried Sassoon

2004-02
This final volume of the Sherston trilogy opens with Sassoon/Sherston's arrival at Craiglockhart War Hospital. Following his protest against the continuation of the War (see Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Sassoon was sent before a medical board, and on the evidence of his friend Robert Graves (Sassoon's pseudonym for Graves is David Cromlech), was then sent to Craiglockhart in Edinburgh. Here Sassoon becomes a patient of W H R Rivers (of Regeneration fame). It is here also that Sassoon met Wilfred Owen (although this famous meeting is missing from this book owing to Sassoon denying Sherston his poetic side). After 6 months Sassoon rejoins his Regiment and, after a brief spell in Ireland (mostly spent fox-hunting) and an even briefer spell in Palestine, ... Read More:

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Sassoon's Long Journey: Selections

by: Siegfried Sassoon

November 07, 1983
This final volume of the Sherston trilogy opens with Sassoon/Sherston's arrival at Craiglockhart War Hospital. Following his protest against the continuation of the War (see Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Sassoon was sent before a medical board, and on the evidence of his friend Robert Graves (Sassoon's pseudonym for Graves is David Cromlech), was then sent to Craiglockhart in Edinburgh. Here Sassoon becomes a patient of W H R Rivers (of Regeneration fame). It is here also that Sassoon met Wilfred Owen (although this famous meeting is missing from this book owing to Sassoon denying Sherston his poetic side). After 6 months Sassoon rejoins his Regiment and, after a brief spell in Ireland (mostly spent fox-hunting) and an even briefer spell in Palestine, ... Read More: