Зигфрид Сассун - автор 7 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Самоубийство в окопах, War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
British army officer on the Western Front during WW1 recalls his youth as a rural gentry lad interested only in horses, cricket matches and fox-hunting. A delightful tale of Victorian England which received the Huntington Prize in 1928.
At the dawn of World War I, poet Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War and includes "Counter-Attack," "'They," "The General," and "Base Details."
The second volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realitie...
Sherston's Progress is the final book of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy. It is preceded by Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. The book starts with his arrival at 'Slateford War Hospital' (based on Craiglockhart War Hospital). The famous neurologist W. H. R. Rivers is a major character in the book, having a profound influence on Sassoon in real li...