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The narrative moves from the trenches to the fourth army school, to morlancourt and a raid, then to and through the somme. It is a fictionalised account of sassoons own life during and immediately after world war i. Memoirs of an infantry officer by siegfried sassoon, paperback. Dunn, during the war medical officer in the second battalion.
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