Word: sassoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER? Siegfried Sassoon ? Coward McCann...
...years ago appeared a quiet autobiographical narrative, Memoirs of A Fox-Hunting Man. This book is its sequel. Author Sassoon calls himself "George Sherston," changes the names of regiments and men, but those who read his onetime great & good friend Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That (TIME, Jan. 6), may remember the right ones. Another fine War book, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is what the name implies. It tries to give no picture of the War as a whole. "Those who expect a universalization of the Great War must look for it elsewhere. Here they will only find...
Sherston (Sassoon) served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Flintshires (Royal Welch Fusiliers), came through the Somme unhurt and with a Military Cross to his credit. He was shot through the chest by a sniper at the Battle of Arras. He won the M. C. by losing his temper. When a man alongside of him was shot, Sassoon charged the German trench singlehanded, bombing as he went. The Germans thought it was an attack, fled, and Sassoon occupied the abandoned trench. After a while, not knowing what else to do, he came back, found his commanding officer furious. A scheduled...
...Sassoon apparently never lost his nerve, but never felt himself a very competent officer. "My main fear was that I should make a fool of myself. The idea of making a fool of oneself in that murderous mix-up now appears to me rather a ludicrous one; for I see myself merely as a blundering, flustered little beetle; and if someone happens to put his foot on a beetle, it is unjust to accuse the unlucky insect of having made a fool of itself...
...Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow the Jews to return to England (they were expelled in 1290). That return allowed Benjamin Disraeli, a Sephardi, to become Prime Minister of England and Sir Philip Sassoon, also a Sephardi, to become the rich crony of the present Prince of Wales. (England's potent Isaacs, Samuel and Rothschild families are Jews of German origin...