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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.
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.
- Robert Graves
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.
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.
Dec 24, 2021 · Re-reading “Goodbye to All That” today — in the era of online, shortform oversharing — it’s striking to a contemporary reader how those 1967 sentences trail on and curl over themselves, like...
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.
Sep 5, 2023 · 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,...
