The first volume in Siegfried Sassoon s beloved trilogy The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul FussellA highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilog... Lees meer.
A striking diary representing a lost element of country life profusely illustrated with line illustrations throughout accompanied by family photographs. Frances Witts was the great-grand-daughter of the Cotswold Parson and maintained the family tradition of keeping... Lees meer.
It is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart. In the 1920s a young man grappling with the horrors of the war from which he... Lees meer.
George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child through shiftless adolescence to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in of village cricket and loyal grooms had vanished forever by the time Sassoon wrote... Lees meer.
In this volume originally published in 1903 is a practical account of Mr. Dales experiences of the hunting fields of Leicestershire and the surrounding countries. It will still appeal to those with an interest in the history of hunting. The many photographs in the boo... Lees meer.
George Sherston - the I of the book - is a shy sensitive and rather lonely boy living on the Kent Sussex border in the early years of the 20th century. His great loves are sports horses and hunting and the story is told through his gentle and comic adventures at p... Lees meer.