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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

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First published: 1930
Pages: 200

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The second volume of Siegfried Sassoon's lightly fictionalized memoirs picks up George Sherston as a young infantry officer on the Western Front. Where the first book mourned a lost countryside, this one plunges straight into the mud, the raids, and the slaughter of the Somme in 1916. Sherston is brave to the point of recklessness, then wounded, then increasingly sickened by the waste around him. His disgust hardens into a public protest against the conduct of the war, a declaration that might have ended in court-martial but instead sends him to a hospital for shell-shocked officers. Published in 1930, it is the sharpest and most political book of the Sherston trilogy.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was an English poet and prose writer and one of the leading literary voices of the First World War. Awarded the Military Cross for bravery, he stunned the public in 1917 by openly denouncing the conflict. His Sherston memoirs remain classics of the period.