Goodbye to All That
$20.17
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2011
Summary
Goodbye to All That: A Soldier’s Stark Remembrance
‘There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don’t occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses …’
In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241951410 |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
| Author: | Robert Graves |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 201g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 111mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
One of the classic accounts of the Western Front * The Times *Wonderful – Jeremy Paxman * Daily Mail *From the moment of its first appearance an established classic * Observer *One of the most candid self-portraits of a poet, warts and all, ever painted * The Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Robert Graves
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
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