George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his
failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A touching depic
tion of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is also a comi
ng-of-age story which follows George from a shy and awkward childhood, through s
hiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of
trench warfare. Written after Siegfried Sassoon's return from the First World Wa
r but looking back at happier times,Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was published a
nonymously in 1928.
