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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes Sherston's
Progress and both Memoirs,
I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs
as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a
light burning in the farmhouse window, and the evening star
glitters above a broken drift of half-luminous cloud. It is with a
sigh that I remember simple moments such as those, when I
understood so little of the deepening sadness of life, and only the
strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart.In the 1920s, a
young man, grappling with the horrors of the war from which he had
just returned, decided to write about a happier time. A time of
cricket matches and fox-hunting, the busyness of village life and
the shyness of youth.That man was Siegfried Sassoon, and this is
his book. Originally published anonymously, it went on to become
Faber & Faber's first bestseller. A classic depiction of
pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man tells two
mirrored stories, about a boy coming of age and a country losing
its innocence.
As I stepped over one of the Germans an impulse made me lift him up
from the miserable ditch. Propped against the bank, his blond face
undisfigured, except by the mud which I wiped from his eyes and
mouth with my coat sleeve. He'd evidently been killed while
digging, for his tunic was knotted loosely about his shoulders. He
didn't look to be more than eighteen. Hoisting him a little higher,
I thought what a gentle face he had, and remembered that this was
the first time I'd ever touched one of our enemies with my hands.
Perhaps I had some dim sense of the futility which had put an end
to this good-looking youth. Anyhow I hadn't expected the Battle of
the Somme to be quite like this.
This first-hand account of the
face of battle is as beautifully written as it is historically
significant.
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The old Huntsman
Siegfried Sassoon
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For "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon," Sir Rupert Hart-Davis has
arranged the poems as far as possible in the order of their
composition. A useful Biographical Table is also included, so that
students, scholars, and other readers can trace the movement of the
soldier alongside the mind of the poet. Fourteen of the poems in
this volume are published for the first time.
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