Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Limited edition (this is No. 995 of 2000 copies). Publisher's full beige linen cloth with and embossed black bugle on the front cover, black lettering on the spine, black endpapers. Illustrated with color drawings by Paul Hogarth and signed by him. Limited to 2000 copies, signed by the artist. Introduction by David Daiches. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886-1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy". This volume, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, is a novel by Sassoon, first published in 1930. It is a fictionalized account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. Soon after its release, it was heralded as a classic and was even more successful than its predecessor, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. . Spine is very slightly sunned, bottom of spine has a pin-head sized hole, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. In a very good slipcase. NEAR FINE. Color drawings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xvii, 224 pp. Signed by Artist

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Publisher: The Limited Editions Club

Year: 1981

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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