Memiors of an Infantry Officer Author:Siegfried Sassoon "I am making this statemnt as an act of willful defiance of military authority...because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become ... more »a war of aggression nd conquest..."
These defiant words from George Sherston, a medal-winning campaigner known in the trenches as 'Mad Jack' for his daring one-man raids on the enemy, climax Siegfried Sassoon's brilliant autobiographgical novel of World War i..."« less