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		Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.

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		Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
		World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Fiction.
		Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
		Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Fiction.
		Arras, Battle of, Arras, France, 1917 -- Fiction.
		War neuroses -- Great Britain -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
		War -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
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		Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
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		Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Fiction.
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Memoirs of an infantry officer / Siegfried Sassoon.

by Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.

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Simon Publications, [2002?]

Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Fiction.

Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.

Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Fiction.

Arras, Battle of, Arras, France, 1917 -- Fiction.

War neuroses -- Great Britain -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.

War -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.

9781931313810 (pbk.)

1931313814 (pbk.)

334 p. ; 21 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Coward, McCann, 1930.

The second vol. of a trilogy with title The memoirs of George Sherston. The other volumes of the "Sherston trilogy" are Memoirs of a fox-hunting man and Sherston's progress.

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1930. It is a fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. Soon after its release, it was heralded as a classic. Sassoon's account of his experiences in the trenches during World War I, between the spring of 1916 and the summer of 1917, creates a picture of a physically brave but self-effacing and highly insecure individual. The narrative moves from the trenches to the Fourth Army School, to Morlancourt and a raid, then to and through the Somme and the Battle of Arras in 1917. The book portrays Sherston's emotional and intellectual coming of age, as he learns "that he is but one insignificant person caught up in events beyond anyone's comprehension." Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886 - 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".

Autobiographical fiction.

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