Friday, May 18, 2012

The rich remembering of prose narratives about war


There are so many possibilities here, both factual and fiction, writings from around the time of the wars by eye witnesses and later novels written by others. Plenty here for private reading or a book club.

Contemporary or near-contemporary writings from the First World War include:

Siegfried Sassoon The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Memoirs of a fox hunting man; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Sherston