Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
The second volume of Siegfried Sassoon’s lightly fictionalised memoirs, following Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. George Sherston goes to the Western Front, fights on the Somme and at Arras, and wins the Military Cross. Then, sickened less by the killing than by the reasons given for it, he issues a public statement of refusal and is sent to Craiglockhart rather than court-martialled. Written in a deliberately flat, unheroic register that makes the anger underneath it plainer.
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Andy McNab
You’ve got this well-educated man who really doesn’t mind killing Germans but what he doesn’t understand is the reason why he’s killing them. As the war continued he began to realise that it was for political reasons – the military industrial complex. There was too much power play – the Allies couldn’t stop because they need the Germans completely on their knees so everyone got the divvy-up of land and power.
Interview · May 2010
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