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The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of...

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in,...

At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedOne of the most searingly honest portraits of a generation scarred by war, The Complete Memoirs of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of autobiographical fiction, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston collects Siegfried Sassoon's celebrated trilogy — Memoirs of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of autobiographical fiction rooted in the First World War, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer chronicles the harrowing experiences...

George Sherston - Sassoon's alter ego - fights in the battles of Somme and Arras. He is awarded the Military Cross. Almost all his friends and companions are killed. And...