Goodbye To All That

Description

'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 experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. They were to haunt him for the rest of his life.

Reviews

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