Siegfried Sassoon : A Biography

Siegfried Sassoon : A BiographyAuthor: Egremont, Max Biography & True Stories Published on 10 October 2013 by Pan Macmillan (Picador) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 656 pages 128 x 199 x 43 486g The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of the First World War, and Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer are still widely read, as are his poems, which did

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rogue and charismatic fantasist

' Simon Jenkins'Every page sparkles

perception

from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on his senses' Geoff Dyer Albert Camus was born in a 'world of poverty and sunshine' in Algeria

As teenage André stands on the dock

'and so I suffer'

who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen

'Abundantly good' TLS'A wondrous reminder of Attenborough's pioneering role

magical childhood

'It has only taken a global pandemic for the world to realise we were weaned from Mother Nature too soon reminding us that the simple things in life are the best

John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter