Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer
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A landmark work of autobiographical fiction rooted in the First World War, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer chronicles the harrowing experiences of George Sherston, a young English soldier navigating the brutal realities of trench warfare on the Western Front. Siegfried Sassoon draws deeply from his own wartime service to craft a narrative that balances visceral, unflinching depictions of combat with moments of quiet introspection and dark irony. The tone is both elegiac and defiant, capturing the psychological toll of war on a sensitive, idealistic mind increasingly disillusioned by the senseless slaughter around him. The novel reaches its moral and dramatic climax when Sherston makes the courageous — and career-threatening — decision to publicly protest the continuation of the war, a act of conscience that lands him in a military psychiatric hospital rather than a court-martial. As the second volume in the semi-autobiographical Sherston's Progress trilogy, it stands as one of the most powerful and enduring pieces of First World War literature ever written.
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Format: Hardback
Published: 1995, Faber and Faber
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of autobiographical fiction rooted in the First World War, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer chronicles the harrowing experiences of George Sherston, a young English soldier navigating the brutal realities of trench warfare on the Western Front. Siegfried Sassoon draws deeply from his own wartime service to craft a narrative that balances visceral, unflinching depictions of combat with moments of quiet introspection and dark irony. The tone is both elegiac and defiant, capturing the psychological toll of war on a sensitive, idealistic mind increasingly disillusioned by the senseless slaughter around him. The novel reaches its moral and dramatic climax when Sherston makes the courageous — and career-threatening — decision to publicly protest the continuation of the war, a act of conscience that lands him in a military psychiatric hospital rather than a court-martial. As the second volume in the semi-autobiographical Sherston's Progress trilogy, it stands as one of the most powerful and enduring pieces of First World War literature ever written.