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Siegfried Sassoon
The War Poems are re-published for the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War.
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George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. This is a coming-of-age…
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Before its publication, Siegfried Sassoon's reputation rested entirely on his poetry, primarily written during and about World War I. Only ten years after the war ended, after some experience in…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The world he grows up in, of village cricket and loyal grooms, had vanished forever by the time Sassoon wrote this book, but he captures it with a lyricism and…
Max Egremont
The authorized biography of a literary legend, written with unique access to all of Sassoon’s previously unseen papers
Marcello Giovanelli
This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who has typically been perceived as a poet of protest and irony…
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Duncan Marlor
On 13 July 1917 a thirty-year-old junior officer on leave from the Western Front arrived at London's Euston Station, with its famous arch and great hall. Siegfried Sassoon was heading…
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
A collection of verse from the English novelist and poet who, after serving as an officer in World War I, expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war…
British army officer on the Western Front during WW1 recalls his youth as a rural gentry lad interested only in horses, cricket matches and fox-hunting. A delightful tale of Victorian…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Personal narratives of a British officer on the Western front during World War I.
Title: Satirical Poems.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150…
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in…
Picture-Show, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation…
First published in 1947, this collected edition represents Sassoon’s own choice of the poems he wished to preserve.
A classic depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man tells two mirrored stories, about a boy coming of age and a country losing its innocence.
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Reissued to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, in a beautiful package including Barnett Freedman’s original illustrations.
those who expect a universalization of the Great War must look for it elsewhere.‘ Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first published in 1930, is Siegfried Sassoon’s fictionalized autobiography of the…
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Over 80 works include Counter-Attack, They, The General, and Base…
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886. Sassoon was educated at the New Beacon School, Sevenoaks, Kent then Marlborough College, Wiltshire and finally at Clare College, Cambridge, where…
