The Complete Memoirs Of George Sherston
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of autobiographical fiction, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston collects Siegfried Sassoon's celebrated trilogy — Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress — into a single, definitive volume. The narrative chronicles the life of George Sherston, a gentle, sport-loving English squire whose idyllic Edwardian youth gives way to the brutal realities of the First World War trenches. Written with lyrical precision and quiet emotional intensity, Sassoon illustrates the devastating psychological toll of combat through a protagonist whose sensitivity and moral courage set him apart from the machinery of war around him. The prose moves from pastoral nostalgia to harrowing battlefield experience with remarkable tonal control, capturing both the beauty of a vanished England and the horror of its destruction. Widely regarded as one of the finest semi-autobiographical accounts of the Great War, this trilogy stands alongside the works of Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves as an essential testament to a generation irrevocably shaped by conflict.
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Faber and Faber
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of autobiographical fiction, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston collects Siegfried Sassoon's celebrated trilogy — Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress — into a single, definitive volume. The narrative chronicles the life of George Sherston, a gentle, sport-loving English squire whose idyllic Edwardian youth gives way to the brutal realities of the First World War trenches. Written with lyrical precision and quiet emotional intensity, Sassoon illustrates the devastating psychological toll of combat through a protagonist whose sensitivity and moral courage set him apart from the machinery of war around him. The prose moves from pastoral nostalgia to harrowing battlefield experience with remarkable tonal control, capturing both the beauty of a vanished England and the horror of its destruction. Widely regarded as one of the finest semi-autobiographical accounts of the Great War, this trilogy stands alongside the works of Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves as an essential testament to a generation irrevocably shaped by conflict.