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Words of endurance: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Jenny

This is one of a series about memoirs, novels, and poems authored by combatants of the First World War. All page numbers below refer to Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. New York: Penguin Classics, 2013. Embedded within the pages … Continue reading →

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Words of endurance: The greatest WWI poem—In Parenthesis

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Jenny

This is one of a series about memoirs, novels, and poems authored by combatants of the First World War. All page numbers below refer to David Jones,  In Parenthesis. New York: New York Review Books, 2003. Originally published 1937. A … Continue reading →

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