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Max Egremont
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Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet's Life
Max Egremont
May 25, 2006
00:59:20
Max Egremont tells the story of Siegfried Sassoon, one of the most famous famous young writers of the 1910's, a mentor to Wilfred Owen, and an inspiration to Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence. Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent, and began writing verses as a boy.
Siegfried Sassoon: A Life
Author:
Max Egremont
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
Binding:
Hardcover, 656 pages
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