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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 Great War Poets (DVD)
Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, A. E. Houseman, Siegfried Sassoon, …
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Documentary about the poetic accounts of the Great War as written
by veterans Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, A.E. Houseman
and Siegfried Sassoon.
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.
An unabridged edition, with sixty-four poems to include, but not
limited to: Prelude: The Troops - Dreamers - The Redeemer - Trench
Duty - Wirers - Break of Day - A Working Party - Stand-To: Good
Friday Morning - "In The Pink" - The Hero - Before The Battle - The
Road - Two Hundred Years After - The Dream - At Carnoy - Battalion
Relief - The Dug-Out - The Rear-Guard - I Stood With the Dead -
Suicide in Trenches - Attack - Counter-Attack - The Effect -
Remorse - In An Underground Dressing-Station - Died Of Wounds -
"They" - Base Details - Lamentations - The General - How to Die -
Editorial Impressions - Fight to a Finish - Atrocities - The
Fathers - "Blighters" - Glory of Women - Their Frailty - Does It
Matter? - Survivors - Joy-Bells - Arms and the Man - When I'm Among
a Blaze of Lights - The Kiss - The Tombstone-Maker - The One-Legged
Man - Return of the Heroes - Everyone Sang
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes Sherston's
Progress and both Memoirs,
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, of village
cricket and loyal grooms, had vanished forever by the time Sassoon
wrote this book, but he captures it with a lyricism and gentleness
that defy nostalgia.
A bestseller on publication in 1928, this superb evocation of the
Edwardian age has remained in print ever since. It was the first
volume of a classic trilogy, completed by Memoirs of an Infantry
Officer and Sherston's Progress, that charted both the destruction
of the world for which Sassoon fought, and his own emergence as one
of Britain's finest war poets.
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Various Artists - Poetry Choice (CD)
Thomas Gray, John Keats, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Walter de la Mare, William Wordsworth, …
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The old Huntsman
Siegfried Sassoon
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Discovery Miles 4 730
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