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In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Enlisting at the age of twenty in 1916, Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme,... read more

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First Sentence

I was not anxious to go.

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  1. Edmund Blunden (Author)

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