{"product_id":"siegfried-sassoon-a-life-9780374263751","title":"Siegfried Sassoon: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eSiegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent  and began writing verses as a boy. While a brave young officer  he confronted the terrible realities of the First World War on the battlefield  in verse  and  finally  by announcing his opposition to the war in 1917  showing that physical courage could exist alongside humanity and sensibility. In 1918  Sassoon found himself one of the most famous young writers of the time  a mentor to Wilfred Owen  and admired by Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence. He joined the Labour Party  became literary editor of the socialist Daily Herald  and began close friendships with Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster  while trying to adapt his poetry to peacetime. Then Sassoon fell in love with the artistocratic aesthete Stephen Tennant  who led him into his group of Bright Young Things who inspired the early novels of Evelyn Waugh. At the demise of his passionate and fraught relationship with Tennant  Sassoon suddenly married the beautiful Hester Gatty in 1933 and retreated to a quiet country life until their eventual estrangement and Sassoons subsequent conversion to Catholicism. From his famous war poems to the gentler vision of his prose  Sassoon wrote masterfully of war and lost idylls  and this work and its complex author are brilliantly illuminated in Max Egremonts definitive biography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279958138933,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374263752","price":60.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374263751.jpg?v=1780616683","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/siegfried-sassoon-a-life-9780374263751","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}