The book is well worth reading - but it's only a partial biography, focusing on the last four years..
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, biographer of Sassoon and Rosenberg, is writing a full one, which should be published soon. She will deal with the more difficult material - those years before he wrote poetry, when he worked as a literary drudge, published prose that never quite matched his capabilities, and treated his womenfolk rather badly. It'll be interesting to see what Wilson makes of him.
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