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Title: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon ISBN: 1-931313-81-4 Publisher: Simon Publications Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Vivid account life at the front line during WW1.
Comment: Siegfried Sassons' "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" is a first-hand account of life at the front line during World War 1. This is not a just a historical document or diary however. Sassoon writes via an alter-ego called George. In real life, Sassoon was an infantry officer who fought at the front, but eventually grew suspicious of the reasons for the continuation of World War 1, and as such became a dissenter. This book may be fiction, but it is based on fact and it gives an impressive account of what life must have been like in those trenches, nearly a hundred years ago. Sassoon's incredible ability with words paints a much more vivid picture than any war movie will ever provide.
George was a middle-class officer who had the luxury of a university education and was an avid reader of classic English literature. He juxtaposes the themes and ideas in this romantic poetry with the realities of life at the front to great effect. Although a tad repetitive in it's ideas (perhaps to get the point across clearly), this book is rewarding and still relevant this whole century later. As one character in the book says, "In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth" .
Rating: 5
Summary: Problably the greatest book ever written about WWI
Comment: Sassoon did a great job writing this book, it shows the war in an other perspective than most books about WWI. I think he sees the social misunderstandings brought to the trenches and he does also see that some deeds are totally irrelevant to the duration of the war. Really good to read.-Thomas Scheuer
Rating: 5
Summary: Memoir in the tradition of Graves and Orwell
Comment: Siegfreid Sassoon's wonderful war memoir is thinly disguised as the story of George Sherston. Based solely on Sassoon's life in the trenches of WWI, it recounts the horror and scale of carnage that occurred. More importantly it shows the emotionally scars that the survivors carried with them as a result of exposure.
Sherston (Sassoon) was a rather spoiled and pampered young upper class Englishman. The war changed all that. Confronted with death, destruction and idiotic leadership from the High Command you sense the inner turmoil of Sherston.
Relieved when he is not involved with the fighting he is driven by guilt over the loss of the soldiers in his battalion. Consequently when his platoon is on the line he takes great risks in reconaissance of the German positions.
The effects of non-stop total war, stupid leadership and the complete contrast between England and the trenches (only a few hundred miles apart) is staggering to Sassoon. Sassoon becomes anti-war and considers becoming an objector, but his obvious connection to his comrades and loyalty to them wins out in the end. He hates the war but won't abandon his comrades in the field.
This is a great war memoir written by a poet who survived and was changed for life by his experiences in it.
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Title: Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography by Paul Fussell, Robert Graves ISBN: 0385093306 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 February, 1958 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Hart-Davis ISBN: 0571130151 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Jon Silkin ISBN: 0141180099 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell ISBN: 0195133323 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook ISBN: 0850529433 Publisher: Pen & Sword Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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