Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - Siegried Sassoon
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Embedded within the pages of Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, you will find an account of a British second lieutenant on the Western Front, complete with vivid scenes of the Somme and Arras. But the books unique value concerns events off the battlefield, a personal and solitary journey undertaken by Sassoon.
Infantry Officer is the second volume of Sassoons trilogy, The Memoirs of George Sherston, a fictionalized autobiography. Names have been changed, events rearranged. The crux of the book is a description of Sherstons growing disgust with the conflict and his decision in 1917 to make a public protest against the War. These episodes run pretty close to Sassoons real experience, and they tell how Sherston/Sassoon was eventually packed off to a mental hospital. The top brass were embarrassed by this protest on the part of a decorated officer, but they feared making a martyr of him. Rather than sending him to prison, they decreed that he suffered from shell shock, and he was quietly removed from public view.
Softcover in very good condition