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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