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Sassoon Siegfried:     more books (100)

Collected Poems, 1908-1956 by Siegfried Sassoon, 1986-01-01 Memoirs OfA Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon, 2006-01-01 The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Large Print) by Siegfried Sassoon, 2007-11-19 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon, 1974 Siegfried Sassoon Diaries, 1915-1918 by Siegfried Sassoon, 1983-07 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon, 1980-09 Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon, 1980-09 Siegfried Sassoon: A critical study by Michael Thorpe, 1967 Siegfried Sassoon: A Life by Max Egremont, 2005-12-13 Siegfried Sassoon by John Stuart Roberts, 2005-02-01 Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man by Sassoon Siegfried, 1971 Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey From the Trenches, A Biography (1918-1967) by Moorcroft Wilso, 2004-11-30 Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries, 1920-1922 by Siegfried Sassoon, 1981 Diaries 1915-1918 (Isis Series) by Siegfried Sassoon, 1990-06

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1. Siegfried Sassoon - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Siegfried Sassoon s only child, George Sassoon, died of cancer in 2006. George had three children, two of whom were killed in a car crash in 1996.  
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon
   
   Extractions: Occupation Poet Diarist ... British Writing period Early 20th Century Genres Poetry Fiction ... Biography Debut works The Old Huntsman and other poems Influences E. M. Forster Influenced Wilfred Owen Edmund Blunden Robert Graves Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC 8 September 1 September ) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I . Later on he won acclaim for his prose work. Sassoon was born in a house named Weirleigh (which still stands) in the village of Matfield Kent , to a Jewish father and an Anglo-Catholic mother. His father, Alfred, one of the wealthy Indian Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant family, was disinherited for marrying outside the faith. His mother, Theresa, belonged to the Thornycroft family, sculptors responsible for many of the best-known statues in London —her brother was Sir Hamo Thornycroft . There was no German ancestry in Sassoon's family; he owed his unusual first name to his mother's predilection for the operas of

2. Siegfried Sassoon
   Siegfried Sassoon.com will be launched in August 2006 to celebrate the life, work and legacy of one of England s foremost poets and writers.  
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   Extractions: Heytesbury House. Siegfried Sassoon.com will be launched in August 2006 to celebrate the life, work and legacy of one of England's foremost poets and writers. Contributions are welcomed on any relevant subject. In the meantime, please note details of The Flower Show Match below. THE FLOWER SHOW CRICKET MATCH Celebrating the 120 th Anniversary of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon's 120th anniversary and his love of cricket, is to be commemorated on Wednesday the 26th of July 2006 when a select Sassoon XI play at Matfield Cricket Club at 2pm. As a boy, Sassoon played for Matfield and the village ground provided the setting for one of Sassoon's most famous pieces of writing – The Flowershow Match - published in his classic Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man. The match has been organised by Bob Miller, a member of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, and it is hoped that the fixture will become an annual event. A trophy will be presented to the winning team by Dennis Silk, a close friend of Sassoon, and former TCCB and MCC President. The Sassoon team will be named the George Sherston XI in celebration of the semi-autobiographical character that Sassoon used in his books. The team will be captained by Andrew Pinnell and made-up of various Sassoon aficionados, plus various members of the PG Woodehouse cricket society – the Gold Bats.

3. Siegfried Sassoon
   Siegfried Sassoon was one of the most fascinating of these figures. Like Owen, he was a poet who made his name writing a poetry whose unflinching engagement  
   http://www.arlindo-correia.com/080704.html
   
   Extractions: Siegfried Sassoon Sigfried Sassoon was born in London and educated in Marlborough and then later at Cambridge. He served in France from the beginning of the war in the Royal Welch Fusiliers , the oldest Welsh Infantry Unit. Sassoon died in Wiltshire in 1967. Before the end of the war he had published a volume of anti-war poems, called Counter Attack (1918). Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930), records his personal protest against the war. This became the second volume in his trilogy The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (1937). As an infantry officer, Sassoon distinguished himself by wild and heroic exploits (he subsequently won an M.C., which was a distinguished British award), but ended as an out-spoken pacifist and author of some of the most satirical anti-war poems ever written. His book Collected Poems appeared in 1947, protest statement against the continuation of the war, which was eventually read before the House of Commons on July 30th, and published in The Times the next day. Sassoon then politely went A.W.O.L. (declining to report for further duty), threw his M.C. ribbon into the River Mersey, and waited for martyrdom. However the Army hesitated to punish such a public hero as Sassoon (one whose poetry was read and admired by Churchill, among others), and so a way was found, with the help of fellow poet and Royal Welch Fusilier, Robert Graves who came to Sassoon's rescue, of reasoning that Sassoon's reaction was merely shell-shock, and for sending him to

4. Siegfried Sassoon --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on Siegfried Sassoon English poet and novelist, known for his antiwar poetry and for his fictionalized  
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9065838/Siegfried-Sassoon
   
   Extractions: English poet and novelist, known for his antiwar poetry and for his fictionalized autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life. Sassoon enlisted in World War I and was twice wounded seriously while serving as an officer in France. It was his antiwar poetry, such as The Old Huntsman (1917) and

5. Tripe Soup: Siegfried Sassoon
   Siegfried Loraine Sassoon.(18861967) was a poet who was deeply affected by his experiences in the Great War. In 1917 Sassoon wrote a statement against the  
   http://andyfarnsworth.blogspot.com/2004/07/siegfried-sassoon.html

6. Siegfried Sassoon - Wikiquote
   Siegfried Sassoon (September 8, 1886 September 1, 1967) was a British poet and writer, most famous for the poems he wrote as a soldier in World War I.  
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   Extractions: Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. Siegfried Sassoon September 8 September 1 ) was a British poet and writer, most famous for the poems he wrote as a soldier in World War I I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practised on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the contrivance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realize.

7. Siegfried Sassoon
   Siegfried Sassoon AKA Siegfried Loraine Sassoon. Born 8Sep-1886 Birthplace Brenchley, Kent, England Died 1-Sep-1967 Location of death Heytesbury,  
   http://www.nndb.com/people/184/000113842/

8. Knitting Circle Siegfried Sassoon
   Siegfried Sassoon s part of the family had first flourished in Baghdad and then in the city of Bombay. The family were very wealthy and endowed hospitals,  
   http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/sassoon.html

9. The Document Archive At The Imperial War Museum : Siegfried Sassoon
   Siegfried Sassoon, one of the best known poets to emerge from the First World War, enlisted in the ranks of the Sussex Yeomanry on the outbreak of war in  
   http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.936
   
   Extractions: Fourth Army School, May 1916 Siegfried Sassoon, one of the best known poets to emerge from the First World War, enlisted in the ranks of the Sussex Yeomanry on the outbreak of war in August 1914, and was commissioned the following year into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Serving as a subaltern on the Western Front, Sassoon gained a distinguished reputation, receiving the Military Cross in June 1916 and earning the nickname "Mad Jack" for his daring exploits in action. Wounded in the shoulder in April 1917, Sassoon was evacuated back to Britain. During his convalescence his discontent with the course of the war became more pronounced, and in July he issued a public declaration of his belief that the war was being deliberately prolonged by those who had the power to end it. Narrowly avoiding a military court martial through the intervention of his friend Robert Graves, the authorities decided that Sassoon's behaviour was a direct result of neurasthenia ("shell-shock"), and he was ordered to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh where he was placed under the psychiatric treatment of Dr W H R Rivers. The Department holds two main collections relating to Siegfried Sassoon. Of greatest significance are the original manuscript and typescript drafts of Sassoon's autobiographical novel

10. ::Siegfried Sassoon::
    Siegfried Sassoon was a preeminent war poet from World War One. Siegfried Sassoon befriended Wilfred Owen in hospital. Sassoon encouraged Owen to develop  
    http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/siegfried_sassoon.htm
    
    Extractions: Siegfried Sassoon was one of the great poets from World War One . The poetry from the likes of Sassoon and Wilfred Owen seemed to many to be an apt summary of the horrors that many had experienced during the war. Siegfried Sassoon was born on September 8 th 1886 in Kent. Born into a reasonably well-off family, Sassoon was educated at Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge University where he studied Law and History. However, he left university before graduating but had discovered a love for the poetry of Tennyson and Yeats. Up until the outbreak of the war, Sassoon spent his time living a life of leisure – fox hunting, playing cricket and riding point-to-point. Encouraged by Edward Marsh to write poetry, Sassoon moved to London to immerse himself in literature. He rented out an apartment and in July 1914 met Rupert Brooke there. Though he was short of money and soon in debt, it was the type of experience that he was looking for. However, the war changed all this.

11. Making The Modern World - World War One: Siegfried Sassoon
    Siegfried Sassoon was one of the most significant of the First World War poets. His uncompromising poetry detailed the horror of the trenches,  
    http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/english/03.TU.01/?sectio

12. Siegfried Sassoon €“ Wikipedia
    Felicitas Corrigan Siegfried Sassoon Poets Pilgrimage (1973) ISBN 0575-01721-X; Jean Moorcroft Wilson Siegfried Sassoon The Making of a War Poet (1998)  
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    Extractions: Loikkaa: valikkoon hakuun Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (s. 8. syyskuuta Matfield Kent Britannia – k. 1. syyskuuta ) oli englantilainen runoilija ja proosakirjailija. Hän tuli toisen maailmansodan aikana tunnetuksi satiirisista sodanvastaisista runoistaan mutta sai myöhemmin mainetta proosateoksistaan. Sassoonin isä Alfred Sassoon oli intianjuutalaista sukua, ja hänen äitinsä oli brittiläinen protestantti Theresa Thornycroft. Etunimensä Siegfried hän sai, koska hänen äitinsä ihaili saksalaista säveltäjää Richard Wagneria . Hän opiskeli 1905–1907 Clare Collegessa Cambridgessa oikeustiedettä ja historiaa. Hän kuitenkin keskeytti opintonsa ja kulutti aikaansa metsästellen ja krikettiä pelaten. Häneltä ilmestyi omakustanteena jokunen vähälle huomiolle jäänyt runoteos. Tulot riittivät vaatimattomaan elämään. Ensimmäinen teos, The Daffodil Murderer , ilmestyi 1913 salanimellä Saul Kain Sassoon kääntyi vanhoilla päivillään katoliseksi. Hänen ainoa poikansa, tutkija, kielitieteilijä ja kirjailija George Sassoon , kuoli syöpään 2006. Georgella oli kolme lasta, joista kaksi kuoli auto-onnettomuudessa 1996.

13. Siegfried Sassoon - Poems, Biography, Quotes
    Free collection of all Siegfried Sassoon Poems and Biography. See the best poems and poetry by Siegfried Sassoon.  
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    Extractions: Siegfried Sassoon Enlarge Picture View Siegfried Sassoon: Poems Quotes Biography Books With war on the horizon, a young Englishman whose life had heretofore been consumed with the protocol of fox-hunting, said goodbye to his idyllic life and rode off on his bicycle to join the Army. Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebidle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero." Born into a wealthy Jewish family in 1886, Sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: fox-hunting, playing cricket, golfing and writing romantic verses.

14. Poetry Anthology - Siegfried Sassoon
    Siegfried Sassoon (18861967). Dreamers Everyone Sang The General Glory of Women They  
    http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/anthology/Sassoon/index.htm

15. Siegfried's Journey: 1916-1920 By Siegfried Sassoon
    Siegfried s Journey 19161920 - book cover, description, where to purchase, release history.  
    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/siegfried-sassoon/siegfrieds-journey-1916192
    
    Extractions: Fantastic Fiction Authors S Siegfried Sassoon ... Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Siegfried Sassoon A non fiction book by by Siegfried Sassoon Used availability for Siegfried Sassoon's Siegfried's Journey: 1916-1920 See all available used copies of this book at: Abebooks UK or Abebooks US July 1976 : Hardback Title: Siegfried's Journey: 1916-1920 Author(s): Siegfried Sassoon ISBN: (USA edition) Publisher: Ams Pr Inc Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... 1947 : Hardback Title: Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920, Author(s): SASSOON SIEGFRIED - Publisher: Right Book Club

16. Sassoon, Siegfried. War And Other Poems.
    Short biography with links to a selection of his poems.  
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    Extractions: S iegfried S assoon by W illiam J B ean last updated January 7, 2001 Go on to the Poetry of War. This site is most unusual. It combines the best of humankind with the worst. It reproduces here some of the most elegant and blunt poetry with some of the most brilliant visual artistry of the time. Unfortunately the art and poetry describe one of the worst things humans can do to one another. The legalized murder called war. Here then is one poet's view of this odd human pass-time. Siegfried Sassoon was born in Weirleigh, Kent, England on September 8, 1886 into a leisurely society of country living. His father, a Sephardic Jew, and mother, a Catholic, separated when he was five years old. When his father died of Tuberculosis a few short months after the separation¹, his mother was forced to raise Siegfried on her own. ²Siegfried was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and later attended Clare College at Cambridge. His main interests were hunting and poetry. He was an undergraduate at Clare from 1905 to 1907 and was later made an Honorary Fellow in 1953. Five years after leaving Clare College he wrote a parody to the poem "The Everlasting Mercy" by John Masefield . Mr. Masefield was so impressed by the work that he hailed Sassoon as "one of England's most brilliant rising stars...". Sassoon's parody titled "The Daffodil Murderer" was written in December of 1912. Sassoon enlisted in the military at the age of 28 just before the draft and was eventually assigned to the Royal Welch Fusiliers. There he met and befriended the writer

17. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
    siegfried sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebidle has called sassoon the accidental hero. Born into a wealthy Jewish  
    http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/sassoon/
    
    Extractions: Stanbrooke Abbey 1960 With war on the horizon, a young Englishman whose life had heretofore been consumed with the protocol of fox-hunting, said goodbye to his idyllic life and rode off on his bicycle to join the Army. Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebidle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero." Born into a wealthy Jewish family in 1886, Sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: fox-hunting, playing cricket, golfing and writing romantic verses. Being an innocent, Sassoon's reaction to the realities of the war were all the more bitter and violent both his reaction through his poetry and his reaction on the battlefield (where, after the death of fellow officer David Thomas and his brother Hamo at Gallipoli, Sassoon earned the nickname "Mad Jack" for his near-suicidal exploits against the German lines in the early manifestation of his grief, when he still believed that the Germans were entirely to blame). As Paul Fussell said: "now he unleashed a talent for irony and satire and contumely that had been sleeping all during his pastoral youth." Sassoon also showed his innocence by going public with his

18. BBC - History - Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967)
    An English war poet, sassoon was also known for his fictionalised autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life.  
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/sassoon_siegfried.shtml
    
    Extractions: Send it to a friend! An English war poet, Sassoon was also known for his fictionalised autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life. Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 in Kent. His father was part of a Jewish merchant family, originally from Iran and India, and his mother part of the artistic Thorneycroft family. Sassoon studied at Cambridge University but left without a degree. He then lived the life of a country gentleman, hunting and playing cricket while also publishing small volumes of poetry. In May 1915, Sassoon was commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and went to France. He impressed many with his bravery in the front line and was given the nickname 'Mad Jack' for his near-suicidal exploits. He was decorated twice. His brother Hamo was killed in November 1915 at Gallipoli.

19. Counter-Attack: Biography Of Siegfried Sassoon By Michele Fry
    Site dedicated to sassoon and to Great War literature in general. The webmaster is working on a biography of sassoon for publication.  
    http://www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk/
    
    Extractions: Navigation Page Siegfried Loraine Sassoon. Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon was born at the family home of Weirleigh at Matfield, Kent, England, in 1886, the second son of Alfred and Theresa (née Thornycroft), who subsequently separated when Sassoon was five years old. (Alfred had been disowned by his mother after his marriage to Theresa because she was not a Jew, and Alfred was the first of the Sassoon clan to marry outside the family faith. He died of TB when Sassoon was nine.) Sassoon was educated at Marlborough and then at Clare College, Cambridge. He studied both Law and History at Cambridge before leaving without taking a degree. After leaving Cambridge, Sassoon lived the life of a sportsman, hunting, riding point-to-point races and playing cricket until the outbreak of the War. Although Sassoon wrote poetry before the War he was no more than a minor Georgian poet. His best poem prior to the War was The Daffodil Murderer - a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy . Sassoon wrote The Daffodil Murderer one day in December 1913. He had been feeling particularly uninspired about his poetry, and was looking at the books on the shelves in his room out in the Studio when he picked up Masefield's

20. Siegfried Sassoon Collection At Bartleby.com
    sassoon, siegfried. Bartleby.com. Corbis. Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land. —Dreamers. siegfried sassoon  
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