Undertones of War
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2010
Summary
Undertones of War: A Soldier’s Lament
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders.
Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as ‘murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes’. In his compassionate yet unsentimental prose, he tells of the herois…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184364 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184361 |
| Author: | Edmund Blunden, Hew Strachan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2010 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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An established classic … accurate and detailed in observation of the war scene and its human figures
An established classic … accurate and detailed in observation of the war scene and its human figures – D. J. Enright
About The Author
Edmund Blunden
Edmund Blunden was a poet and critic born in Yalding, Kent in 1896. He studied at Oxford, was professor of English literature at Tokyo from 1924-7 and fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1931. He joined the staff of ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ in 1943, and from 1953 lectured at the University of Hong Kong. From 1966-8 he was professor of poetry at Oxford.
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