{"product_id":"2026770001570-secondhand-memoirs-of-an-infantry-officer","title":"Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48839334428891,"sku":"2026770001570-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/438211ba-718d-4f60-8d4d-7db1bb2c1ecd.png?v=1780560754","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026770001570-secondhand-memoirs-of-an-infantry-officer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}