Sherston's Progress
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of the Western Front, George Sherston — shell-shocked, morally fractured, and haunted by the living and the dead — returns to the trenches in the concluding volume of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress. Picking up where Memoirs of an Infantry Officer left off, the narrative chronicles Sherston's passage through a Scottish military hospital under the care of the pioneering psychologist W.H.R. Rivers, his slow psychological reconstruction, and his inevitable, anguished return to the war he publicly condemned yet cannot abandon. Sassoon's prose is deceptively spare — restrained, ironic, and suffused with a grief too deep for easy sentiment — and it is precisely this tension between duty and disillusionment that gives the novel its enduring power. Where other war writers rage, Sassoon observes, and in that quiet, unflinching observation he captures something essential about the conscience of a generation consumed by industrialised slaughter. A masterwork of early twentieth-century British literature, Sherston's Progress stands as both an intimate portrait of a man reclaiming his humanity and a searing indictment of the cost of modern warfare — leaving the reader to ask whether any soldier, having seen what Sherston has seen, can ever truly progress.
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of the Western Front, George Sherston — shell-shocked, morally fractured, and haunted by the living and the dead — returns to the trenches in the concluding volume of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress. Picking up where Memoirs of an Infantry Officer left off, the narrative chronicles Sherston's passage through a Scottish military hospital under the care of the pioneering psychologist W.H.R. Rivers, his slow psychological reconstruction, and his inevitable, anguished return to the war he publicly condemned yet cannot abandon. Sassoon's prose is deceptively spare — restrained, ironic, and suffused with a grief too deep for easy sentiment — and it is precisely this tension between duty and disillusionment that gives the novel its enduring power. Where other war writers rage, Sassoon observes, and in that quiet, unflinching observation he captures something essential about the conscience of a generation consumed by industrialised slaughter. A masterwork of early twentieth-century British literature, Sherston's Progress stands as both an intimate portrait of a man reclaiming his humanity and a searing indictment of the cost of modern warfare — leaving the reader to ask whether any soldier, having seen what Sherston has seen, can ever truly progress.