1930 Memoirs of An Infantry Officer

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition, first impression. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately following the First World War. Soon after its release, it was heralded as a classic and was even more successful than its predecessor, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Sassoon's account of his experiences in the trenches between the spring of 1916 and the summer of 1917, creates a picture of a physically brave but self-effacing and highly insecure individual. With accounts from the trenches, the Fourth Army School, Morlancourt, and through the Somme. Written by Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War, and is best remembered for his lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital.