Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Robert Graves
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Author: Robert GravesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-09-28
ISBN: 0141184590
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Book Review: autobiography from the trenchs
Summary: 4 Stars
Possibley one of the best known autobiographies to be written from the trenchs of the First World war Robert Graves in later years would be a professional writer and in his autobiography he brings all his considerable skill to bear.
Born into privilage in Victorian England he was among the rush of young men who scrambled to enlist when war broke out in 1914. As a young gentleman of a proper education he is accepted as an officer in the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers a unit that produced some of the most proliffic writers of the entire war.
Graves coveres the prejudices of his age. Not just the us vs them of the war, but between classes in England, between officers and enlisted with in his own army, between different regiments in the army and between regulars and volunteers within his own officers' mess. For example when he is first commissioned, his commander is reluctant to send him overseas. He feels Graves is not sporting enough, because Graves did not ask for time off to go hunting.
As the book unveils, the glossy patina of 'joining the grand adventure' wears away in the horrors of the trench and frustrations with senior officers, and Graves takes the reader along with him. You start out shiny and hopeful and end feeling as if you too are caked with grime, not just mud but the blood spilled to no good end.
Summary of Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics)
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. "Goodbye to All That", with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.Biographies & Memoirs Books
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