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Along with Robert Graves, Sassoon wrote the best memoir of World War I that I have read. Sassoon, a British officer, differs from Graves in that his writing seems more detached and more focused on not just the war, but on life in Britain before, during and immediately after. "Sherston" is a fictional name and the book is a clearly an autobiography.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) Siegfried Sassoon was the product of two very different cultures, his Jewish father’s family of merchant princes from Baghdad and his English mother’s Thornycroft farming ancestors, turned sculptors, painters and engineers. The second of three sons, he grew up in rural Kent, where his father abandoned the ...
Sassoon is one of the sixteen Great War poets commended on a slate stone in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner. He was also the subject of Memorial Tablet, an audio CD of readings by Sassoon that was recorded during the late 1950s. His son, George Sassoon, died of cancer in 2006.
Sassoon House, Shanghai, China. The Sassoon family, known as "Rothschilds of the East" due to the immense wealth they accumulated in finance and opium trade, are a Baghdadi Jewish family.. Although most biographical data about the Sassons lists Baghdad, Iraq, as their place of origins, according to the American journalist Daniel Gross, the Sassons have their origins in Aleppo, Syria.
Siegfried Sassoon. Siegfried Sassoon ritratto da George Charles Beresford, maggio 1915. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon ( Matfield, 8 settembre 1886 – Heytesbury, 1º settembre 1967) è stato un poeta inglese . La sua fama è principalmente legata alla sua produzione poetica dai toni satirici contro la prima guerra mondiale .
George Sassoon (Q15492361) From Wikidata. Jump to navigation Jump to search. scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author (1936-2006) George Thornycroft Sassoon; edit. Language Label Description Also known as; English: George Sassoon.
George Thornycroft Sassoon (30 October 1936 – 8 March 2006) was a British scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author.. Early life. Sassoon was the only child of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and Hester Sassoon née Gatty, and was born in London, where his parents had rented a house in order to be closer to specialist help than in Wiltshire.
