Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)
 

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)

by Robert Graves

The quintessential memoir of the generation of Englishmen who suffered in World War I is among the bitterest autobiographies ever written. Robert Graves's stripped-to-the-bone prose seethes with contempt for his class, his country, his military superiors, and the civilians who mindlessly cheered the carnage from the safety of home. His portrait of the stupidity and petty cruelties endemic in... (read more)

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My husband had an old paperback edition of Good-Bye to All That, and it had been on my TBR list for years. I had the incorrect notion that it would be dry, difficult or somehow depressing. Instead I was charmed by Graves' style, his descriptions of pre-WWI English society and school, his first hand experience of the trenches in France, and his chumming around with people like Wilfred Owen, AE Houseman, and TE Lawrence. I found the book to be interesting and informative, though I could have...

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