An aesthete in the trenches
{ "b" : "Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography," , "cite" : "by Max Egremont, Picador, £36.50."}
{ "b" : "Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography," , "cite" : "by Max Egremont, Picador, £36.50."}
From an early age, Siegfried Sassoon knew what it was that set him apart from others: his Jewishness, his homosexuality and his delicacy. As a boarding pupil at Marlborough College, a moderately liberal and enlightened school, his family later maintained Sassoon had carried a knuckle-duster to protect himself against anti-Semitic attacks.
At the same time his family name carried the allure of money and...
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