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A review by naimfrewat
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
4.0
Really ended up liking it. The talk about foxhunting and all of the specificities of that sport were daunting in the beginning but they got me reading about foxhunting and the book easily gets the reader in without dwelling too much in the jargon.
I was surprised to ses a lot carefulness is placed in the accessories and fashions pertaining to foxhunting, the writer noticing his fellow sportsmen first by their apparel.
There are beautiful passages on the English countryside and the reader surfs pleasantly throughout though each turn of the page harbors the dark anticipation of what is about to happen.
And so the war comes in late in the book; though the description of it is not gorey or repulsive, I'm glad it didn't receive much pages in this volume (there are 3 more).
The little thar made it, told from the point of view of a logistics officer rather than from that of a man in combat, is enough to prod us into sanctifying diplomacy, talks and dialogue above all else.
I was surprised to ses a lot carefulness is placed in the accessories and fashions pertaining to foxhunting, the writer noticing his fellow sportsmen first by their apparel.
There are beautiful passages on the English countryside and the reader surfs pleasantly throughout though each turn of the page harbors the dark anticipation of what is about to happen.
And so the war comes in late in the book; though the description of it is not gorey or repulsive, I'm glad it didn't receive much pages in this volume (there are 3 more).
The little thar made it, told from the point of view of a logistics officer rather than from that of a man in combat, is enough to prod us into sanctifying diplomacy, talks and dialogue above all else.