Books Details
Author : Robert Graves Pages : 408 pages Publisher : Everyman's Library
Language : ISBN-10 : 1101907983 ISBN-13 : 9781101907986
Books Descriptions
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.
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS.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.
The memoir documents not only his own personal experience, as a patriotic
young officer, of the horrors and disillusionment of battle, but also the
wider loss of innocence the Great War brought about. By the time of his
writing, a way of life had ended, and England and the modern world would
never be the same. In Graves's portrayal of the dehumanizing misery of
the trenches, his grief over lost friends, and the surreal absurdity of
government bureaucracy, Graves uses broad comedy to make the most
serious points about life and death.
