Nigel Jones
Mad About The Boys
Siegfried Sassoon has received almost excessive biographical attention in recent years. First up was John Stuart Roberts’s pioneering life – which paid rather too much attention to the poet’s late conversion to Catholicism, at the expense of his crucial war experiences. Then came Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s exhaustive two-volume blockbuster.
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