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[Max Egremont]'s access to private papers, denied to previous biographers, allows him with great sensitivity, to re-examine [Siegfried Sassoon]'s homosexuality and the inevitable collapse of his marriage. At the end of his life, a lonely and broken man, he found consolation in Catholicism and the conversation of nuns. I particularly enjoyed Sassoon's guerrilla warfare against the modernists and 'Towering Tom' Eliot.
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Books of the Year - Raymond Carr
The most stimulating history book I have read this year is Niall Ferguson's The War of the World (Penguin, £25). ...
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