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Siegfried Sassoon

by Max Egremont

ISBN: 0374263752
ISBN-13: 9780374263751
Format: Hardcover

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Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 2005
Size: 6.5 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 2.25 pounds
Pages: 637

Publisher's Notes

A biography of the soldier and poet who inspired Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Thomas Hardy, among others, reconstructs the life of this twentieth-century icon in vivid detail.

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