Siegfried Sassoon

Broschiertes Buch

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Beschreibung

Propped against the bank, his blond face undisfigured, except by the mud which I wiped from his eyes and mouth with my coat sleeve. Anyhow I hadn't expected the Battle of the Somme to be quite like this. This first-hand account of the face of battle is as beautifully written as it is historically significant.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 148mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780571348121
• ISBN-10: 0571348122
• Artikelnr.: 53793582