Siegfried Sassoon
22 May 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of the First World War, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer are still widely read, as are his poems, which did much to shape our present ideas about...
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22 May 2014656 pages
9781447234784Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'Sassoon is the ultimate ambiguous man, and Egremont does him full justice . . . he has honoured him with a biography of subtle affection and truth' Sebastian Barry, Financial Times
'Egremont's work outclasses his predecessors . . . this is an outstanding and original biography' Max Hastings, Daily Telegraph
'Unmistakably the best thing anybody has ever written about Sassoon' D J Taylor, Independent
‘Egremont’s work outclasses its predecessors . . . This is an outstanding and original biography’ Max Hastings, Daily Telegraph
