Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Faber Classics) - Brossura

Sassoon, Siegfried

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ISBN 10: 0571203183 ISBN 13: 9780571203185

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2000

Riassunto

This is Sassoon's fictionalized autobiography of his experiences in the trenches during World War I, between the spring of 1916 and the summer of 1917. The narrative moves from the trenches to the Fourth Army School, to Morlancourt and a raid, then to and through the Somme.

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L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0571203183
• ISBN 13: 9780571203185
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272