Good-bye to All That An Autobiography

You must be logged in to access this title.

Sign up now

Already a member? Log in

Synopsis

"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing."This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly comic work to the way it was first written, by a young man still reeling from the trenches. 'We see the dark heart of the book even more clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered terms of the later one' Andrew Motion'One of the most candid self-portraits, warts and all, ever painted' TLS

Book details

Series:
Anchor Bks.
Author:
Robert Graves, Andrew Motion, Fran Brearton
ISBN:
9780141395272
Related ISBNs:
9780141392660
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2018-07-28
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
Penguin Books Ltd 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Biographies and Memoirs, History, Military, Nonfiction