Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Siegfried Sassoon
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social chronicle
- Time of Work: 1916-1917
- Setting: France and England
- Principal Characters: George Sherston, David Cromlech, Aunt Evelyn
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Satire
- Subjects: France or French people, Friendship, 1910’s, England or English people, Upper classes, Death or dying, World War I, Bombs, Satire, Battles, Arms or weapons
- Locales: France, England
The Story:
Spring arrived late in 1916 in the trenches near Mametz. Sherston had made up his mind to die; under the circumstances, there seemed to be little else to do. The battle of the Somme had exhausted him. Colonel Kinjack could see that Sherston was looking for trouble. To forestall any unpleasantness, he sent Sherston to the Fourth Army School at Flixecourt for a month’s training.
The beds at the school were clean and comfortable, and the routine was not too onerous. Sherston settled back to forget the war. He attended a big-game hunter’s lectures on sniping...
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