Siegfried Sassoon is a big fat liar

Edit (see article below 'Siegfried Sassoon's mythologists are big fat liars')

George (celebrating a year of his blog), points to an article about the upcoming auction of Siegfried Sassoon's MC, which was cunningly hidden in an attic, and not, as he claimed, thrown in the Mersey.

Elsewhere, everyone is telling me to watch various parts of The Edwardians, however unfortunately my television cable doesn't actually stretch to my television, and I don't have digital. As Alice pointed out at the Women in Games conference recently, I'm one of a growing demographic that doesn't use the television wing of the BBC in any form (although I do rent BBC dvds, listen to the radio, and use the website for everything from checking the weather to reading news). I can honestly put my hand on my heart and say I haven't watched television at my house for about 2 years - the last thing I saw was episode five of series two of Lost (and the reception was borked anyway); although I do regularly watch films or series dvds (which I consume a great deal of)

Comments

[Alice]

Hi Esther!

I'm back in the UK in September of this year. Didn't get to talk to you at WiG, or meet you - fancy lunch?

A.

[David Gray]

This comment is sooo late and the point may already have been made elsewhere, but I can’t let the statement that Sassoon lied about throwing away his medal go unanswered. Anyone who has studied Sassoon and read his books will know that it was his medal ribbon that he threw in the Mersey, not the medal itself. Soldiers did not walk about with medals jangling on their chests. They wore a ribbon sewn on to their tunic. Sassoon ripped this off and threw it away. It is an often repeated misconception by those who have not taken the time to actually read his books that he threw away the actual medal itself. He never said he did.