Midway through his stunning new book “Soldiers Don’t Go Mad,” author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from the Times of London on Aug. 18, 1917: “The war has brought new opportunities of heroism to ...
In prose and mood, no reminiscences published in 1939 are likely to surpass the idyllic felicity of Siegfried Sassoon’s The Old Century and Seven More Years (Viking, $2.75), a nostalgic account of his ...
VIGILS — Siegfried Sassoon — Viking ($1.50). Of the British poets whom the War sent over the top, Siegfried Sassoon is one of the few survivors. As an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers he served ...