Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man

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 this book. Yet, he captures it with a lyricism and gentleness that defy nostalgia.

Key Highlights:

• Publication History: A bestseller on publication in 1928, this superb evocation of the Edwardian age has remained in print ever since.
• Trilogy Insight: It was the first volume of a classic trilogy, completed by Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress.
• Historical and Literary Significance: The trilogy charts both the destruction of the world for which Sassoon fought, and his own emergence as one of Britain's finest war poets.