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Good-Bye to All That provides a detailed description of trench warfare, including the tragic incompetence of the Battle of Loos, including the use of gas, and the bitter fighting in the first phase of the Somme Offensive.
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Divided into anecdotal scenes and satiric episodes, Good-Bye to All That is infused with a dark humor. It chronicles the author's experiences as a student at Charterhouse School in London and as a teenaged soldier in France during World War I, where he sustained severe wounds in combat.
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An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
Good-Bye to All That, autobiography by Robert Graves, published in 1929 and revised in 1957. It is considered a classic of the disillusioned postwar generation. Divided into anecdotal scenes and satiric episodes, Good-Bye to All That is infused with a dark humour.
Dec 9, 2020 · English. 281 pages ; 20 cm. 'Goodbye to all that' is Robert Graves' candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the World War I. Originally published: London: Cassell, 1957. Access-restricted-item.
Mar 8, 2019 · Initially published in 1929, Good-Bye to All That is the autobiography of author and poet, Robert Graves. In his introduction to the book, author and World War II veteran Paul Fussell states that this is “the best memoir of the First World War.”
Goodbye to All That is an autobiography by English poet Robert Graves, written at the age of 34 and commemorating the occasion of his departure from England to live with his mistress,...
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An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a...
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good.
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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...
