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Sassoon & Graves

On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War

The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers have never been out of print since their first publication. Both men won instant and enduring fame with these very different narratives, which made them two of the most influential participants in shaping later attitudes to the war. Graves gave offence in many quarters with his factual inaccuracies and/or slurs on various units of the British Army. Sassoon's nostalgic evocation of his cricketing and fox-hunting background contrast with the detailed narrative of personalities and life in the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Arras. The thinly disguised names of real fellow officers are unravelled to help illustrate Sassoon's poetry and actions.

What is even more extraordinary is the other writers who also served with them at
some stage or other in the same battalion of the regiment — Frank Richards, who
wrote the great 'other rank' classic, Old Soldiers Never Die (though some have
expressed the opinion that the book was in large measure ghosted by Graves)
and Bernard Adams, who wrote that beautiful book, Nothing of Importance. It
seems fairly certain that the writings of Sassoon and Graves inspired Captain J C
Dunn ...